 | What sports programs are available to
persons with a disability in your community?
 | Check the phone book, the park and
recreation department, and school-based community education
programs. |
| Ask "able-bodied" athletes in various
sports where they practice, then ask the coaches or
administrators of those programs whether persons with a
disability are welcome to participate. |
| Ask persons with a disability about
their background in sport and physical activity. Ask about
the sports programs in which they participate, the coaching
available in those programs, and the accessibility of those
facilities. |
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| What are your ideas for increasing
the number and variety of sport opportunities for persons
with a disability? Where possible, justify your response
with information from experts, journal articles, web sites,
etc. |
| What are your ideas for helping
persons with a disability to feel more welcome and accepted
as participants in sports programs? |
| If you are a student in kinesiology,
physical education, or exercise science, conduct a
self-assessment of your readiness to coach athletes with a
disability in a selected sport. What skills and knowledge do
you have and do you need to develop? How are your needs
similar or dissimilar to the issues raised about coach
education on this web site? |
|
Interview people from
the following groups. What do they view as the most
important issues in disability sports? Why? What are their
suggestions for improving disability sports programs?
|
Athletes with a
disability |
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Coaches of athletes
with a disability |
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Administrators of
sport programs affiliated with national governing bodies or
disability sports programs |
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| Make a list of issues related to the
classification of athletes with a disability for
competition. |
| Describe concerns related to drug
control that are unique to athletes with a disability. |
| What role should athletes with a
disability (or former athletes) have in the governance of
disability sports? Explain your answer. |
