2025: Empowering the Future through Education, Diversity, and Hope

Impacts of Peer Inclusion Sports Programs

Location

Hemmingson Ballroom

Start Date

15-4-2025 11:15 AM

End Date

15-4-2025 12:15 AM

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This research analyzes peer inclusion sports programs for youth, with a focus on Special Olympics programs, which emphasize people with and without disabilities playing sports together. The benefits of participating in sports and the benefits of inclusion will be addressed. A brief history of disability and sports will be discussed. The poster will also review various benefits to participants with and without disabilities who participate in such programs, with a focus on the importance and benefits of social inclusion. The perspectives of families of children with disabilities are also included. Barriers to access for people with disabilities will be analyzed.

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Poster Session A

Publication Date

2025

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Impacts of Peer Inclusion Sports Programs

Hemmingson Ballroom

This research analyzes peer inclusion sports programs for youth, with a focus on Special Olympics programs, which emphasize people with and without disabilities playing sports together. The benefits of participating in sports and the benefits of inclusion will be addressed. A brief history of disability and sports will be discussed. The poster will also review various benefits to participants with and without disabilities who participate in such programs, with a focus on the importance and benefits of social inclusion. The perspectives of families of children with disabilities are also included. Barriers to access for people with disabilities will be analyzed.