Enjoyment levels of youth with visual impairments playing different exergames

Insight: Research and Practice in Visual Impairment and Blindness

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 171-176

  Boffoli, Nicholas ^a   Foley, John T ^a   Gasperetti, Barbara ^b   Yang, Stephen P ^a   Lieberman, Lauren ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b The Jean Black School   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Exergames; Physical activity; Physical activity enjoyment scale; Physical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873473054     PISSN: 2157037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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