PREPARATION OF SWIMMING SPECIALISTS ACCORDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF MODERN STANDARDS OF SPORT PREPARATION FOR WORK WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

So much attention is paid to sports individuals with intellectual disabilities in international social practice due to at least two factors. Firstly, it is the huge potential of adaptive sport as area of rehabilitation, social integration and improvement of the life quality of this population. Second reason is the largest number of persons with intellectual lesions compared to individuals with other nosological forms of limitations on health. For example, there are more than 300 mil. people with intellectual disabilities; mental retardation occurs 9 times more often in cerebral palsy, 15 times more likely to total blindness, and 35 times more likely to muscular dystrophy; more than 70 % of the total number of students in special (correctional) educational institutions of the Russian Federation are children with intellectual disabilities. In our country, the ideology and philosophy of Special Olympics, developed and controlled by SOI, brings to life the Special Olympics Russia (President A.V. Pavlov) and Paralympic sports for persons with intellectual disabilities under the auspices of the international organization of sport for the disabled, all-Russian sports persons federation with intellectual disabilities (President S.P. Evseev). In the Russian Federation for disabled persons and persons with disabilities involved in sports are subject to special Federal standards of sports training, mandatory in the development and implementation of relevant programmes, including training, and the determination of requirements for coaching and teaching staff.

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