Abstract

In explaining the role of motor-behavior and -training in rehabilitation-processes for disabled people this paper gives first a short introduction to the different parts of rehabilitation, the aims and goals. The situation of disablement has to be defined in order to understand the needs of these persons. With basic information about the organization of motor behavior and the varieties in physically handicapped it is demonstrated, that the "deficit-concept" has to be replaced by the concept "creative compensation". Most of the time physically handicapped people create new and by other persons and even the physical education-teachers until this time unknown movement behavioral acts. In their motor learning processes handicapped persons need special help e.g. by better sensoric information for their individual perceptions and by well developed technical aids. It is necessary to reproduce their motor behavior more often than able-bodied. In conclusion the paper shows, that motor behavior and rehabilitation is a very widespread field of interest and of different therapies. In a lot of cases, we find at the end of the therapy very well developed restitutions, but normally even the best therapy leave these persons in a situation of compensational motor-behavior and of great dependence for help from other persons, for technical aids and also the society. Verf.-Referat