The Investigation of Effect of the Basic Skills of Gymnastic Which is Applied to Preschool Autistic Students
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The aim of this research is to investigate the physical development in boys and girls aged between 3 and 6.The participants are students of fitness training which is applied to autistic students who take the special education in Erzurum. The research has been formed with 25 (12 girls and 13 boys) students. The groups have been created in two groups; the first one of ages between 3 and 4 and the second one of ages between 5 and 6. The tests of gross motor development which are walking, running, jumping, splashing, horizontal jumping, gallop leaping and the tests of object control skills which are hitting the ball with bat, bouncing ball, catching a thrown ball, hitting the ball with foot, throwing ball, ball rolling have been performed with these students. After the measurements of students were made, the training has been done for two months (8 weeks) with tailor-made movement education program. After two months of training the measurements were made again and the developments were compared. The statistic analysis of data in research was obtained with using the SPSS 16.00 software package. In statistical methods, the minimum and maximum values, arithmetic average and standard deviation of students were evaluated. In the research results, the significant improvements have been reached in the tests of walking, running, bouncing ball, catching a thrown ball and ball rolling of 3-4 age group students (p>0.05). It has been reached that the group of 5-6 age students have significant improvements (p>0.05) in all of the tests.
Keywords: gymnastic; euro fit tests; physical fitness;
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