Abstract
This work shows some of the results of a study conducted for the doctoral thesis Pedagogía de la Posibilidad. Estudio narrativo sobre el proceso educativo y resiliente de dos personas diagnosticadas de Síndrome de Asperger. We approach Isabel’s and Emmit’s in-school and after-school sports experiences from the perspective of biographical narrative research and the analysis of their life stories. The objective of this work is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of these practices as vehicles for social integration. Their stories take us to school settings in which Physical Education has been limited to certain team sports and sports activities that have not been adapted to their motor and/or hyper sensory needs or to extracurricular sports activities that have somehow enhanced the development of a resilience process. Their stories show sports scenarios that - either because of training limitations or for lack of teachers’ interest - have not been adapted to their sporting and social needs.
Keywords:
Asperger syndrome; Physical Education and training; Resilience, psychological; Biographies as topic