Persons with disabilities are often faced with barriers and discriminations in many societies. They’re always deprived the opportunities that are essential to general well-being. Engaging in sports can help reduce stigma attached to disability. Through sports, the individuals can acquire vital skills, gain confidence and get physically and emotionally fit.
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1. Adaptive golf can be played while standing or sitting. Adaptive golf carts can help with stabilizing the body while swinging the club, and golf clinics can teach individuals with walking/standing disability about adaptive equipment and how to play golf even with the disability.
2. Sitting Volleyball-In sitting volleyball, players are seated, and the game follows the same rules as stand-up volleyball, with the exception of a shorter net, smaller court.
3. Swimming-Adaptive swimming includes all swim strokes and distances. Adaptive swimming does not require special equipment, an individual with a walking disability disability can also swim, so far the pool is accessible to wheelchairs.
4. Tennis-Tennis uses adaptive equipments for mobility, such as a wheelchair. There are rule modifications made, and a stand-up player can play against or be on the same team with a wheelchair player.
5. Basketball ball-The game is played using same rules and standards of basketball, with some variations for dribbling and contact from the wheelchair.
1. Cycling
2. Snow Skiing
3. Table tennis
4. Paddling
5. Horseback riding
6. Shooting
7. Fishing
8. Archery
9. Bowling
10. Sitting fencing