Professional Adaptation of Students with Disabilities Based on the Assessment of Stabilometric Indicators

The article focuses on the organization and methodology of the educational process of students with disabilities on the basis of an improved professional applied physical training. In Russia's higher education system, there is a clear trend towards the deterioration of students' health with a continuous increase in the number of students with disabilities, and among girls the incidence rate is 1.2 times higher. In higher education institutions, students with disabilities of temporary or permanent nature require a significant reduction in physical activity taking into account their performance and functionality; many are not fully ready to perform standard educational applied physical training. To improve the situation, applied physical education (APE) is crucial. APE is a pedagogical process of professional and applied physical training, during which students with disabilities sufficiently increase the range of adaptive body capabilities, form professionally important qualities and, as a result, professional adaptation. The method of stabilometry was used as APE criteria. This method studies the balance of the human body by tracking the quality of the equilibrium function, that is, the dynamics of applied motor skills development in people. Stabilometric indicators of students with disabilities were compared before and after the professional applied preparation phase. 39 students of the South Ural State University and 31 of the South Ural State Institute of Arts were tested. Following the experimental method, the stages of the educational process organization were implemented during classes twice a week to reduce the period of adaptation to physical loads and to increase motor preparedness. The first stage was educating and training of a person during general physical training via lectures, conversations, problem-based presentation of material, etc. The second stage was actualizing of students' body capabilities and individual features via professional and applied physical training. The third stage was independent performance of activity in the selected type of physical exercises which can be corrected, specified, modified. The results of the study indicate that stabilometric control in APE of in students with disabilities allows to timely and quickly identify the level of adaptive body capacity to physical activity, regardless of the factors and conditions of the selected professional activity.

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