GCSE PE Year 10The Participant as an Individual: Disability

AIMS:

• To consider the types of disability that exist.

• To look at the ways in which disabled performers are able to be active participants.

• To consider the measures taken to enable the disabled to participate as fully as possible.

KEY TERM

• INCLUSION – A policy that no one should experience barriers to learning as a result of their disability, heritage, gender, special educational need, ethnicity, social group, sexual orientation, race or culture

DISABILITY• It is an area where social perception has

been raised through policies of INCLUSION to ensure that all people are catered for.

• Disability can be considered to exist in one of four categories:

»Physical»Mental»Permanent» Temporary

• All of the above will affect an individuals ability to take part, but there are ways in which these abilities can be catered for.

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, one of the UK’s most successful disabled athletes, is heralding the cause for other disabled sporting performers.

Grey-Thompson currently sits on the UK athletics board of directors, having been appointed chair of their anti-doping policy review in 2008.

Grey-Thompson has long opposed drug taking in sports, further enhancing her position as a good role model.

It aims to ensure disabled people can benefit from the physical, social and mental benefits associated with fitness-based leisure opportunities.

Sport England has recognized the needs of disabled people so have developed the Inclusive Fitness Initiative.

SPORTING ADAPTATIONS

•All sports can be adapted to cater for either general or specific abilities.

•All governing bodies make efforts to make their sport accessible to all.

•TASK: What sports can you think of that have been adapted? How have they been adapted? Who have they been adapted for? Write in your books!!

• Wheelchair basketball – hoop heights are the same, but some of the rules (such as travelling) are adapted.

• Adapted equipment such as football for the blind have ball-bearings

• Wheelchairs are adapted for all sports including fishing

• Disability classifications for all activities relating to the particular physical demands of that sport.

FACILITIES • It is a legal requirement that all facilities cater for the disabled in the

following ways:• ACCESS – doors and doorways have to be wide enough and ramps

must be provided.• PARKING – disabled bays must be marked and made available• PROVISION – lifts must allow access to upper floors, disabled toilets

provided, and there should be specific activities, clubs or classes that are particularly suited to the disabled.

REVIEW• What is meant by a policy of

inclusion?

• What are the 4 categories of disability?

• What adaptations are there?

• How do facilities cater for the disabled?