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Adapted Physical Education Specialists

What do they do?

Provide individualized physical education instruction or services to children, youth, or adults with exceptional physical needs due to gross motor developmental delays or other impairments.

Education Required

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

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What Does This Job Pay?

Median Annual Salary: $67,190
$43,530
$67,190
$114,360
One out of ten earn less than $43,530
The median salary is $67,190
One out of ten earn more than $114,360

Top Skills For This Job

  • Basic Skills
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  • Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
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  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
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  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
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  • Looking for ways to help people
  • Understanding people's reactions
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  • Reading work related information
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Reading work related information
  • Talking to others
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Reading work related information
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Looking for ways to help people
  • Understanding people's reactions
  • Figuring out how to use new ideas or things
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Teaching people how to do something
  • Understanding people's reactions
  • People and Technology Systems
  • Reading work related information
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Reading work related information
  • Talking to others
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Reading work related information
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
  • Looking for ways to help people
  • Understanding people's reactions
  • Figuring out how to use new ideas or things
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • Teaching people how to do something
  • Understanding people's reactions
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it

Will There Be Jobs?

New job opportunities are very likely in the future.

Typical Daily Tasks

  • Adapt instructional techniques to the age and skill levels of students.
  • Instruct students, using adapted physical education techniques, to improve physical fitness, gross motor skills, perceptual motor skills, or sports and game achievement.
  • Provide individual or small groups of students with adapted physical education instruction that meets desired physical needs or goals.