Author(s): Biswanath Biswas and S Alagesan

Abstract:
The purpose of this study was conducted to find out the impact of Special Olympics football and basketball practices in unified mode on physical fitness components among intellectually disabled mild male athletes on speed and muscular endurance among intellectually disabled mild male athletes. For this purpose investigator selected 20 subjects {10-experimental group-I (Football), 10-experimental group-II (Basketball)} in the age group of 12-15 years from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education (FDMSE), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu-641020. The collected data were treated with applying Correlated ‘t’ test and ANCOVA to find out the significant improvement among pre-test and post-test data. The result shows that there was a significant improvement in the experimental groups on selected criterion variables were speed and muscular endurance of intellectually disabled mild male athletes.

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