Adaptive Sports

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Even in a Wheelchair, Everyone Wants to Know What Sport I Play

From the moment I arrived at the rehab hospital to learn how to live with paralysis, people were asking me what sort of adaptive sport I’d get involved in. Though it seemed like a given to everyone else, for me it was anything but. I was in no frame of mind to think about shooting hoops or racing in a wheelchair while sprawled out on a hospital bed, a dazed and scrawny paraplegic who couldn’t sit up without help.

For one thing, in addition to my long road to some sort of recovery, I still had medical limitations. To this day, more than four years after an SUV hit my bicycle and crushed my spine, orthopedic issues prevent me from participating…

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 Even in a Wheelchair, Everyone Wants to Know What Sport I Play

From the moment I arrived at the rehab hospital to learn how to live with paralysis, people were asking me what sort of adaptive sport I’d get involved in.

10 Best Adaptive Sports Facilities in America

Top-notch adaptive sports complexes across the country are giving disabled people opportunities like never before.

12 Important Things to Remember about Adaptive Sports for Children with Disabilities

Finding sports opportunities for kids with disabilities is not always as simple as going down to the local soccer club during the first week of March for sign-ups.

Action Sports Foundation

Providing adaptive sport training and event opportunities to Veterans and the disabled community.

Move United

Move United’s mission is to provide national leadership and opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop independence, confidence, and fitness through participation in community sports, competition, recreation, high performance sport and educational programs.

Paradox Sports

Paradox Sports revolutionizes lives through adaptive climbing opportunities that defy convention.

Parasport

Deloitte Parasport was created by the British Paralympic Association (BPA) who recognised that more could be done to provide information to disabled people who wanted to take up sport, either at a recreational or competitive level. The BPA and Deloitte also wanted to encourage a more active disability sport community.

Adaptive Action Sports

Adaptive Action Sports was founded in 2005 by Daniel Gale and Amy Purdy, to help create opportunities for individuals with physical disabilities to get involved in skateboarding and snowboarding, as well as other action sports.

Adaptive Sports and Recreation Association

Providing sports and recreation programs for children and adults with physical disabilities to ensure opportunities equal to their able-bodied peers.

Adaptive Sports Foundation

The Adaptive Sports Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit organization that provides profound and life changing experiences for children and adults with physical and cognitive disabilities and chronic illnesses through outdoor physical activity, education, support and community.

AdaptiveSports.org

The Adaptive Sports Center enhances the quality of life of people with disabilities through exceptional outdoor adventure activities. The successful programs the ASC provides are inclusive to families and friends, empower our participants in their daily lives and have a positive enduring effect on self-efficacy, health, independence and overall well-being.

Challenge Magazine

Challenge Magazine is a publication of Disabled Sports USA, providing adaptive sports information to adults and children with disabilities, including those who are visually impaired, amputees, spinal cord injured (paraplegic and quadriplegic), and those who have multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy, autism and other related intellectual disabilities.

Challenged Athletes Foundation

It is the mission of the Challenged Athletes Foundation to provide opportunities and support to people with physical challenges so they can pursue active lifestyles through physical fitness and competitive athletics.

Disability Sport

DisabilitySport.org.uk is a guide to organised sport and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities at both local and international levels. Our mission is to facilitate access to disability sports by providing information on a wide range of sports and sports organisations focusing on people with hearing, visual, physical and intellectual impairment.

Disabled Athlete Sports Association

DASA encourages everyone to Discover the Ability Within. Each of us has a different ability. Discover yours today!

Kelly Brush Foundation

The Kelly Brush Foundation is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to assisting individuals with spinal cord injuries and increasing ski racing safety.

Mallory Weggemann

Everyone has a “disability” – some just aren’t as evident as others. As a Paralympian, Weggemann not only addresses how society looks at disability, but also how society looks at disability in the pool.

National Ability Center

The National Ability Center empowers individuals of all abilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs.

National Sports Center for the Disabled

The National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) is one of the largest outdoor therapeutic recreation and adaptive sports agencies in the world, based out of Winter Park Resort and Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Colorado.

One Revolution

One Revolution wants to help you turn perception of disability upside down. Do you have an idea for a short film that forces people to discard their belief that “disabled” means “less”? Do you have an idea that will make the world see you instead of the wheelchair,

Paralyzed Veterans of America

Get Sports: Find out about the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, PVA Bass Tour, Billiards, Bowling, Shooting Sports and more

American Association of Adapted Sports Programs

The American Association of Adapted Sports Programs (AAASP) represents a standardized approach to interscholastic sports programming for students with physical disabilities. It’s a not-for-profit association dedicated to developing adapted interscholastic sport programs in partnership with national, state, and local educational agencies.

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

Posts in adaptive sports.

International Paralympic Committee

The global governing body of the Paralympic Movement.

ParalympicsGB

We are the British Paralympic Association, or the BPA. As the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) for Great Britain, it is our responsibility to select, prepare, enter, fund and manage the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team at the Paralympic Games. This team is known as ParalympicsGB.

U.S. Paralympics

In addition to supporting community and military sport programs around the country, U.S Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee is responsible for selecting and managing the teams which compete for the United States in the Paralympic Games.

VA Adaptive Sports Program

Disabled Veterans of all ages and abilities report better health, new friendships and a better quality of life when participating in adaptive sports.

Disabled World

Adaptive sports also known as disability sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many disabled sports are based on existing able bodied sports, modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports. Organized sport for athletes with a disability is generally divided into three broad disability groups: the deaf, people with physical disabilities, and people with intellectual disabilities. Each group has a distinct history, organization, competition program, and approach to sport.

How iRoll Sports

No "Medical Supply" store here... How iRoll Sports is an adaptive sports store, intended for badass adaptive athletes who are stronger than all their excuses. We offer the most competitive prices online!

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