The Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly (APAQ) is an international, multidisciplinary journal, designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry related to physical activity, which includes sport. Disciplines from which scholarship may originate include corrective therapy, gerontology, health care, occupational therapy, pediatrics, physical education, dance, sport medicine, physical therapy, recreation, and rehabilitation. Among populations considered are at-risk infants and preschoolers, school-age children and young adults many of whom receive special education and/or related services, the aging, and the old. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement, viewed from a biomechanical, developmental, learning, physiological, or psychosocial perspective. The focus of the adaptation may be upon equipment, activity, facilities, methodology and/or setting.
APAQ is divided into six sections, the first four of which include submitted papers. "Viewpoint" is an editorial section that contains commentary on current opinion, legislative and regulatory concerns, and trends in the profession. The "Research" section reports original and replicated research, using appropriate scientific methodology. The "Application" section contains applied investigations in settings often requiring unique methodologies, reports of case studies, programmatic developments involving strategies and techniques, and the design of equipment and facilities. The "Review" section contains papers that systematically and critically examine previous published literature. APAQ also contains a Digest of abstracts of recently published work from around the world and a Books & Media review section.
The Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly publishes with person-first, non-sexist language according to standards of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. (2010).
Not all sections will necessarily appear in each issue. Occasionally a thematic approach may be used to explore a range of issues on a topic. An author index will appear in the October issue.
