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Adapted Physical Education is a **//direct service//** provided to children with disabilities and have an IEP. Every student has the right to and the need for quality Physical Education programming. This includes students with disabilities and special physical education needs. According to the **//__NC GS 115c-81 (a1)__//** the basic education program shall describe the education program to be offered to every child in the public schools. It shall provide every student in the State equal access to a Basic Education Program. Instruction shall be offered in the areas of arts, communication skills, **Physical education**… This right is mandated by //“**Individual with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA**//**,(Sec. 300.108 and 300.39)** **//North Carolina Healthful Living Standard Course of Study//** and further described in 2007 **//Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities (NCDPI).//**
 * // ADAPTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION //**

**__ Adapted Physical education is a direct service provided to students with IEP’ who meet certain criteria __** All Students with IEP’s are entitled by Federal and State law to participate in Physical Education. Those students with disabilities who are unable to participate safely and/or successfully in regular physical education, even with modifications and/or accommodations, might be considered for Adapted Physical Education. The regular Physical Educator and /or Adapted Physical Educator are responsible for providing instruction to the student(s) with a disability.

**__ As documented in the North Carolina Policies Governing Programs and Services for Children with disabilities, NCDPI Exceptional Children Division, Adapted Physical Education is defined: __**


 * [|REFER to SECTIONS: 1500-2.1, 1500.2.34 (a) and (b); 1501-2.6]**


 * ADAPTED PHYSCIAL EDUCATION (APE) FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA**