GCSE Disability

Aims Consider the types of disabilities that exist To understand how sports can be adapted to promote inclusion Discuss ways that facilities cater for the disabled 2

Sport doesn’t care who you are Meet the super humans 3

Disability 4 What is disability? What is inclusion?

Disability Disability can be classified in 4 categories –Physical –Mental –Permanent –Temporary 5

Sporting adaptations All sports can be adapted to cater for either general or specific abilities. Governing bodies make efforts to make their sport accessible to all. 6

Compare and contrast 7 How has association football been adapted?

The Paralympics The Paralympics are held every 4 years straight after the Olympics This year there was 21 different events It gets its name from the parallel Olympics which started in 1948 The IPC (international Paralympic committee) was founded in 1949 and is the Governing Body of sports for athletes with disability The IPC were responsible for the first winter Paralympics in 1994 and encourage all sports authorities to provide competitions for disabled competitors 8

9 List as many different sports that have been adapted to be inclusive to disabled athletes and how.

Classifications 10

Amongst the S1-10 categories, athletes with the lower classification numbers have the more severe impairments. Swimmers who have visual impairments are classified from S11 to S13. S11 swimmers have little or no vision, while S13 swimmers will have a greater degree of vision than S11 or S12 athletes, but will still have less than 20 degrees of vision. Swimmers who are blind have an assistant called a ‘ tapper’ who may use a pole to tap the swimmer to warn them they are approaching the end of a length. New for London 2012 is the S14 class for athletes with a learning disability. 11

Facilities It is a legal requirement that all facilities cater for the disabled in the following ways. –Access –Parking –Provision How? 12

Questions What are the four disability categories (2 marks) State a responsibility of the IPC (1 marks) How can football be adapted to be inclusive for people with a visual impairment (2 marks) Explain 3 ways that facilities must cater for the disabled (6 marks) 13