REC100 Lecture 8: Module 8
14 Apr 2018
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Social construction: negative interpretations of disability leads to negative attitudes and behaviours, leads to labelling, lowered expectations, segregation, congregation, isolation. Chapter 31: mapping the recreation and leisure landscape for canadians with a. Canadians at the margins : people with special needs as a popular way to describe individuals falling outside mainstream society, the disabled , etc. The recreation and leisure service system: approaches to program delivery. Disability sport: fits best within adapted recreation tradition, example: the canadian paralympic committee, special olympics. Rehabilitation: use of recreation for rehabilitation or therapy is most often described as therapeutic. Inclusion is about full participation in all aspects of life, including leisure. Disabled people have sex: stigma against disabled people; assumption that they cannot be in a relationship or have sex, assumption that they are not sexual, and even if they were no one would want to.
