KP100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Disabled Sports, Cerebral Palsy, Tetraplegia
23 Jan 2018
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Those that do not meet the minimum health and safety standards of so canada and/or. So international or are potential danger to its athletes. Highest level of competitive sport for awd. Les autres athletes who don"t fit under the conventional categories. Compete in classes of approx. equal degrees of disability; different sports have different classification systems. Sport governed by international committee of sports for the deaf. Athletes with a hearing loss of 55 decibels or greater in the better ear. Conducted in wheelchairs for athletes with spinal paralysis or lower limb amputations. 24% of children with disabilities never take part in unstructured activities compared to just 2% of able bodies children. Children with disabilities are nearly 2x as likely to be overweight or obese. 1 and 2 children with disabilities report having no friends. 75% of families with a disabled child report that their child participate in organized sports.
