A Bridge Over Troubled Water. The Adaptation of Physical Activities to People with Intellectual Disabilities

Abstract

In 1959 years, Pierre Parlebas, Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne University of Paris in the field of sociology of sport, and Dr. Honoris Causa (University of Lleida, Spain, University of Campinas, Brazil), published his first scientific contribution. Although he is not well known in Anglo-Saxon culture, he could be considered the Darwin, the Einstein, the Freud or the Copernicus of Physical Education proposing a paradigm change. His encyclopaedic training: University degree in physical education, sport, sociology, linguistics, mathematics, allows him to create a new discipline: the science of motor action or motor praxeology.