The Department of Health and Physical Education (HPE) successfully held two online seminars themed on inclusive Physical Education and Adapted Physical Activity, i.e., “Movement and Visual Impairment: Reflections on a Decade of Work” and “Researching Inclusion as a Subjective Experience in Physical Education”, on 7 & 14 November 2022 respectively.
 
The seminars were delivered by visiting scholar Dr. Justin Anthony Haegele at Old Dominion University. Dr. Justin Anthony Haegele, Associate Professor of the Department of Human Movement Sciences, is specialized in the field of Adapted Physical Education/ Activity, Visual Impairment, as well as Disability and Sport. He is also the director of the Center for Movement, Health, & Disability (CMHD).
 
In the first research seminar, Dr. Haegele reflected on lessons learned during nearly a decade of research and scholarship that has explored various aspects of movement, including within and outside of school-based physical education, among youth and adults with visual impairments. This presentation was also informed by the recent text, Movement & Visual Impairment: Research across Disciplines, which he edited. The presentation focused on empirical findings and pointed toward limitations in the existing literature in this area.
 
In the second seminar, Dr. Haegele discussed inclusion as a subjective experience and its implications for research in physical education. He shared a line of research that he has engaged in over the past five years which included speaking with persons with disabilities about the inclusiveness of their experiences within physical education, and concluded with research recommendations to move this area of inquiry forward.