Persons with intellectual disabilities are often characterized by having motor difficulties and limitations expressed in the performance of sports skills. These difficulties may influence cognitive, social emotional and other areas of functioning or be influenced by them. Therefore, work on the motor field serves both as a therapeutic and rehabilitative tool for each functioning domain (Hemayattala & Movahedi, 2010). The development of the motor domain is of great significance to the independence of a person living in the community as a disabled person. (Hotzler, 2004; Almosni, 2007). This article will presents the advantages of exercise for people with intellectual disabilities. Research in the field of sports with people with intellectual disabilities mostly shows positive influences of physiological aspects such as gaining weight, fitness and health, quality of life, coordination aspects and muscular flexibility, a sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem Ninot & Maiano, 2007;Lejcarova, 2009)

Sports fields are many and varied all over the world. In Israel, there are only a few organizations training persons with disabilities such as ISCD (Israel Sport Center for the Disabled) and the IDF disabled Veterans Organization. Table Tennis developed in the end of the 19th Century in England. Only a few studies have been conducted about this sport branch in terms of the normative population (Sindik, 2013;Zhang, 2012) and the population of persons with intellectual disabilities (Van Biesen et. al., 2014;Van Biesen et. al., 2010). Moreover, there are only a few studies were conducted on people with moderate intellectual disability who train in professional sport teams. In this article we will review the components of the main movements underlying table tennis game, which were selected after analyzing table tennis games , and skill tests to check each of the selected skills: balance, eye & hand coordination, power regulation, coordination.

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