KP100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Disabled Sports, Cerebral Palsy, Tetraplegia
15 Dec 2015
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Activities, events, and settings in which individuals with and. Reverse mainstream without disabilities train, recreate, or compete with each other. Able bodied athletes participating in traditional disability sport activities. Originally meant sport exclusively for athletes without disabilities. Today, ab sport means sport predominantly for abs, because laws and human rights policies prevent exclusion. Worldwide sport movement for athletes with intellectual. May have a secondary disability as well, but the major eligibility. Prohibited sports: those that do not meet the minimum health and safety standards of so canada and/or so international or are a potential danger to its athletes, ex: contact sports. Highest level of competitive sport for awd (athletes with: wheelchair use, amputees, cerebral palsy, visual impairments, les autres (everybody with a physical disability that, intellectual disability doesn"t fall into the other groups) Compete in classes of approximately equal degrees of disability; different sports have different classification systems. Sport governed by international committee of sports for the deaf.
