Disability

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• Disability
• in Sport

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Disability Awareness On Equal Terms"Disabled
people are tired of being invisible and are
declaring their right to an equal chance at
life." -Christopher Reeve

• Have you ever wondered what it's like to have a
  disability? How does a person who can't see read?
  Can a person with a physical disability
  participate in sports? If you couldn't hear, how
  would you talk with your friends? Do people with
  disabilities get frustrated have friends, like
  ice cream? Can you catch a disability?
• Individuals with disabilities are real people
  whose disability is as normal to them as you
  having brown, blue, or green eyes or red, blond,
  brown, or black hair. They have feelings. They
  like some of the same things you do, including
  hanging out with friends. If you were to make
  friends with a person with a disability what
  effect would it have on your life?

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Discrimination
Visually impaired athlete Jason Smyth

• Discrimination can include treating the person
  unfavourably because of their disability, or
  because of assumptions made about people with
  that type of disability.

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Common Ways People with a Disability are viewed
and treated

• Unfortunately, and inaccurately, people with
  disabilities are often viewed as
• victims, or objects of pity
• horrible or grotesque
• burdens, either on society or on their families
  and carers
• unable, or assumed to be unable, to do things
• having multiple disabilities (such as assuming
  that a person who uses a wheelchair also has an
  intellectual disability)
• childlike
• "special"

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Discrimination

• because of assumptions made about people with
  that type of disability
• This is known as
• STEREOTYPING

Handcyclist Mark Rohan
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Stereotyping

• Is a preconceived or oversimplified
  generalisation involving negative beliefs about a
  particular group.
• Negative stereotypes are frequently at the base
  of prejudice.
• The danger of stereotyping is that it no longer
  considers people as individuals, but rather
  categorises them as members of a group who all
  think and behave in the same way.
• How do we pick up on stereotypes?

Rower Sarah Caffrey
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Wheel Chair Rugby

• The sport's original name was Murder ball in the
  United States, it is referred to as quad rugby.
• All wheelchair rugby players are quadriplegic, as
  the rules require that they must have a
  disability that affects all or a portion of both
  the upper and lower extremities.
• The majority of wheelchair rugby athletes have
  spinal cord injuries at the level of their
  cervical vertebrae.
• Wheelchair rugby is a mixed sport, with men and
  women competing on the same teams and is played
  indoors on a hardwood court.

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Paralympic Sports

• There are 20 sports in the Paralympic programme
  for London 2012,
• breaking down into disciplines and events.
• Paralympic Archery
• Paralympic Athletics
• Paralympic Cycling Road
• Paralympic Equestrian
• Paralympic Judo
• Paralympic Rowing
• Paralympic Sailing
• Paralympic Swimming
• Paralympic Table Tennis
• Powerlifting
• Volleyball - Sitting
• Wheelchair Basketball
• Wheelchair Fencing
• Wheelchair Rugby

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Deaflympics

• Summer Disciplines 19 Athletics Badminton
  Basketball Beach Volleyball Bowling Cycling
  Road Football Judo Karate Mountain Bike
  Orienteering Shooting Swimming Table
  Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Volleyball
  Wrestling Freestyle Wrestling Greco-Roman
•   Winter Disciplines 5
• Alpine Skiing Cross Country Skiing
  Curling Ice Hockey Snowboard

The current Summer and Winter Deaflympics
programme includes 24 disciplines.
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Useful websites
www.paralympics.ie/
www.deaflympics.com
www.london2012.com/games/paralympic