This document discusses disability and inclusion in sports. It aims to consider types of disabilities, how disabled performers can participate in sports, and measures taken to enable full participation. Disabilities can be physical, mental, permanent, or temporary. Sports have been adapted through equipment modifications and rule changes to be inclusive of disabilities. Facilities must provide accessibility, parking, and accommodations like ramps, lifts, and accessible bathrooms to comply with legal requirements for inclusion. Famous athletes like Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson promote inclusion and oppose doping.

1. GCSE PE Year 10
The Participant as an Individual:
Disability

2. AIMS:
• To consider the types of disability that
exist.
• To look at the ways in which disabled
performers are able to be active
participants.
• To consider the measures taken to
enable the disabled to participate as
fully as possible.

3. KEY TERM
• INCLUSION – A policy that no one
should experience barriers to learning
as a result of their disability, heritage,
gender, special educational need,
ethnicity, social group, sexual
orientation, race or culture

4. DISABILITY
• It is an area where social perception has
been raised through policies of INCLUSION
to ensure that all people are catered for.
• Disability can be considered to exist in one
of four categories:
» Physical
» Mental
» Permanent
» Temporary
• All of the above will affect an individuals
ability to take part, but there are ways in
which these abilities can be catered for.

5. Dame Tanni
Grey-Thompson,
one of the UK’s
most successful
disabled athletes,
is heralding the
cause for other
disabled sporting
performers.

6. Grey-Thompson currently sits on
the UK athletics board of directors,
having been appointed chair of their
anti-doping policy review in 2008.
Grey-Thompson has long opposed
drug taking in sports, further
enhancing her position as a good
role model.

8. It aims to ensure disabled people
can benefit from the physical, social
and mental benefits associated with
fitness-based leisure opportunities.
Sport England has
recognized the needs
of disabled people so
have developed the
Inclusive Fitness
Initiative.

9. SPORTING ADAPTATIONS
•All sports can be adapted to cater for
either general or specific abilities.
•All governing bodies make efforts to
make their sport accessible to all.
•TASK: What sports can you think of
that have been adapted? How have they
been adapted? Who have they been
adapted for? Write in your books!!

11. • Wheelchair basketball – hoop heights
are the same, but some of the rules
(such as travelling) are adapted.
• Adapted equipment such as football
for the blind have ball-bearings
• Wheelchairs are adapted for all sports
including fishing
• Disability classifications for all
activities relating to the particular
physical demands of that sport.

12. FACILITIES
• It is a legal requirement that all facilities
cater for the disabled in the following ways:
• ACCESS – doors and doorways have to be
wide enough and ramps must be provided.
• PARKING – disabled bays must be marked
and made available
• PROVISION – lifts must allow access to
upper floors, disabled toilets provided, and
there should be specific activities, clubs or
classes that are particularly suited to the
disabled.

13. REVIEW
• What is meant by a policy of
inclusion?
• What are the 4 categories of
disability?
• What adaptations are there?
• How do facilities cater for the
disabled?