MULTILATERAL TRAINING AS AN INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHOD TO SUPPORT THE RESILIENCE IN PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Abstract

In recent years the ability of human beings, and some of them, to transform a critical event, potentially destabilizing, into a motive of proposition that allows to reorganize positively the existence has aroused considerable interest. Physical activity for people with disabilities is an opportunity to cope with high stress situations and meet individual needs. Intentionally educational sport is the expression of fundamental human values: loyalty, discipline, rigor, emotional self-government, promotion of feelings of self-esteem and solidarity. These values are useful to develop resilience in order to overcome, flexibly, adverse conditions finding functional forms of adaptation to the negative contexts that are being experienced and to the psycho- physical difficulties that can occur in a disabled person. It is no coincidence, moreover, that national and European supranational policies have for years placed the research and development of transversal motor pathways that involve all individuals, from childhood to adulthood regardless of their abilities, for the promotion of psychophysical well-being. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a physical education program within the overall framework of individual training and personal growth of people with disabilities. The effects of a motor program based on the eight-month Multilateral Training (MT) teaching method on physical efficiency and resilience in people with disability. The study carried out in the academic year 2021-2022 involved 20 disabled athletes. The results show that in athletes, the MT teaching method has been effective in increasing physical efficiency and resilience capacity, highlighting the need to orient sports teaching practice increasingly towards an inclusive model adapted to the needs of the user.