The Experiences of Disabled People in Physical Education

Wesley J. Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA. Wilson’s research interests focus on the storytelling of the lived experiences of physical education professionals and the disabled youth who receive such services. He has served as the director of Project ISAACC and codirector of Project REACH-SLP, two adapted physical education and speech-language pathology training grants. Wilson is also a codirector of Project CAPER and trains adapted physical activity doctoral scholars through an interuniversity partnership.

Justin A. Haegele is the Colgate Darden Endowed Professor as well as the Director of the Center for Movement, Health, and Disability in the Department of Human Movement Studies and Special Education at Old Dominion University, USA. Contextualized within the interdisciplinary field of adapted physical activity, his primary research interests center on exploring how disabled individuals experience physical activity participation, including within school-based physical education contexts. Haegele is the Director of Project CAPER and a codirector of the MAMC, two adapted physical activity training collaboratives. He is also the immediate past president of the North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity and the editor-in-chief for the peer-reviewed publication Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.