Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Kızılyallı M., Şahin F. N., Güler Ö.
Erasmus Projesi, 2017 - 2020
Enriched Sport Activities Program (ESA) is an Evidence-based Practice Exercise Program and it aims to enhance social inclusion, equal opportunities and psycho-physical well being in school-age children with typical development and special needs through sport activities enriched by cognitive tasks. A multidisciplinary approach has been employed; in detail, health - and skills-related physical fitness components, as well as developmental psychology and neuroscience research are the theoretical basis to implement an evidence-based program suitable to increase sport compliance in 7 different countries.The project addresses the objective of social values of sport, in particular health, physical fitness, social inclusion and improvement of sport motivation, by implementing an intervention program to carry out through the involvement of children typically developing and with special needs as well as their parents. And we have been organised the activities based on two main pilar:1. Children and preadolescents’ participation in Enriched Sport Activities (ESA) Program;2. Parents’ involvement and education on cognitive, motivational and social benefits of Physical Activities (PA) in their children.According to the ESA Program working programme we have been creating:● TEG (Technical Expert Group) in charge with the Thematic Area 2 (TA2-cognitive functioning, sport motivation, social inclusion, equal opportunities and special needs) is focusing on two systematic literature reviews to provide: A. The current evidence on the effects of PA programmes on enhancing children’s and adolescents’ motivation towards physical activity; B. The current evidence on the effects of PA programmes on enhancing children’s and adolescents’ with special needs participation in PA.● SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) have been defined to select tests able to predict and monitor cognitive, social and motivational growth in a population target of children (6–14 years) living across Europe. The age range from 6–14 years was chosen because children’s PA levels are acknowledged to decrease over this stage, with higher rates of drop-out in girls’ population, but also because this is a critical phase to address precautionary intervention programs aimed at stimulating an active lifestyle able to prevent inactivity.TEG (Technical Expert Group) implementation: According to calendar of the activities proposed in the project following activities have been implemented in the TEG:The Enriched Sport Activities (ESA) Program by adapting and enlarging previous successful experiences such as PMA (programma Motorio Arricchito) and exercise intervention trainings; a pilot study has been carried out by University of Palermo to investigate the motor development in children with Down Syndrome in order to adapt ESA and make it suitable for population with Down Syndrome. A Parent Education Program to train parents on cognitive, motivational and social benefits deriving from regular PA in childhood and establish educational models and strategies to improve participation in PA by their children. ESA is an integrated sport program in which 27 sessions of warm up in sport activities for typical children, such as soccer, track and field, swimming, basketball, handball and APA (Adapted Physical Activities) for children with special needs are enriched by cognitive tasks aimed at improving executive functions as working memory, shifting and inhibition processes. The Parent Education Program is composed of four sessions that have been carried out for each group of parents (10–12 max group members).To support the enriched motor programme, it has been prepared video-tutorials that describe shortly the features of basic units and the fundamental characteristics of stimuli to progress to intermediate level and advanced one. All video tutorials are available on project platform and its social accounts.