Curriculum vitae

Personalia:

Adrianus Vermeer, born 13 august 1936 in Utrecht (NL), 1.78 m, 72 kg.

Training:

• Gymnasium B (Apeldoorn, 1957)
• School of Military Physical Education (Hooghalen, 1958)
• Teacher College of Physical Education (Arnhem, 1963)
• Med Educational Sciences (Free University Amsterdam, 1972)
• PhD Social Sciences (Free University Amsterdam, 1983); Thesis:Movement and Child Rehabilitation

Jobs:

• Sport instructor Dutch Army (1958-1959)
• Teacher of physical education in primary and secondary schools (1963-1973)
• Lecturer Pedagogics and Didactics of physical education for young children in Teacher College (1966-1971)
• Assistent professor Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, Free University Amsterdam (1973-1985)
• Ibidem Associate professor (1986-1997)
• Professor in Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University (1991-1997)
• Professor in Special Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University (from 1997-2001), since 2001 professor-emeritus.
• Guest Professor European Masters Degree in Adapted Physical Activity, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Katholic University Leuven, Belgium (from 1991)
• Visiting Professor, Faculty of Physical Education and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland (1993)

PhD supervision:

• Baardman: Imaginary ugliness in neurotic patients (1989)
• Bosscher: Running therapy in depressed patients (1991)
• Droes: Movement therapy in SDAT patients (1991)
• Schopman: Math development in children with learning problems (1998)
• Van Veldhoven: Effects of physical activity in children with asthma (1998)
• Ketelaar: Functional physiotherapy in children with cerebral palsy (1999)
• Leemrijse: Effects of motor training in clumsy children (1999)
• Lauteslager: Motor development in young children with Down Syndrome (2000)
• Stegeman: Concepts in actual school physical education (2000)
• De Koning: Learning problems in children in primary school (2000)
• Van Gastel: Quality of structural aspects of care (2000)
• Custers: Dutch adaptation of the PEDI (2001)
• Kroesbergen: Effects of math intervention in young children (2002)
• Swennenhuis: Quality of the proces of care (2003)
• Hammink: Psychomotor diagnostics in child psychiatry (2003)
• Elias: Development of perceived competence in children with mildly mental retardation (2003)
• Van Nieuwenhuizen: Behavioural disorders in children with mildly mental retardation (2003)
• Wassenberg: Development of norms for the PEDI (2004)
• Moonen: Experiences of treatment in children with mild mental retardation and concuct disorders (2004)
• de Graaf: Social integration of children with Down Syndrome in regular schools (2004)
• Theiss (Ger): Germen version of a scale of perceived competence in persons with mental retardation (2004)
• Schwarz (Ger): german version of scales of perceived competence in children with cerebral palsy (2004)
• Getz (Israel): Effects of swimming in children with cerebral palsy (2004)
• Hey: Grondslagen van het bewegingsonderwijs (2005)

National memberships:

• Scientific Society for Rehabilitation Medicine
• Advisory Board Foundation for families with a severe disabled child
• Advisory board Dutch Down's Syndrome Foundation
• Consultant Childhood Disabilities in Developing Countries of the Bisschop Bekkers Institute
• Advisory board Rehabilitation Research, 'Heliomare' Rehabilitation Centre
• Advisory board for Research 'De Hondsberg', Centre for children with mild mental retardation and behavioural disorders
• Advisory board for Research 's HeerenLoo', foundation for care for persons with mental retardation
• Dutch Association for Human Movement Sciences (Chairman till 2000)
• Jury Sports Medicine Award
• Chairman of the board of the CEDER-schools for secondary education in Amsterdam and surroundings
• Chairman of the board of ?De Bruggen?, providing institutional care for persons with mental retardation
• Advisor Parc Spelderholt, a living community for persons with functional limitations

International memberships:

• Board of officers European Association for Research into Adapted Physical Activity
• Advisory Board RESPO DS-DI, Recreation and Sports for the Disabled Organization
• Coordinating Group European Network of Sport Sciences in Higher Education

Editorships/Reviewer:

• Ad hoc Reviewer Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
• Chief Edititor Bewegen & Hulpverlening [Movement & Health Care]
• Associate editor Geneeskunde & Sport [Dutch Journal for Sports Medicine]
• Associate editor Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Kinderrevalidatie [Dutch Journal for Child Rehabilitation]
• Member of the Board of CEDER-school for secundary education in Amsterdam and surroundings

Faculty duties:

• Teaching Director of the Masters Degree Programme in Educational Sciences
• Chairman of the Institute for Educational Sciences
• Chairman of the Disciplinary Board 'General Pedagogy and Special Education'
• Member of the Managemant team of the Propaedeutic Programme Social Sciences
• Departemental coordinator International Affairs
• Member of the Institute for the Study of Education and Human Development (ISED)
• Board member ISED-Utrecht.