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Personal Investment in Disability Sport Careers: An International Study

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 1999
This study aimed to examine the transferability of a personal investment process of disability sport to athletes from the USA, UK, Canada, and Israel. Initiation, competition, and retirement experiences of 40 athletes were examined. Results corroborate previous findings on athletes with and without disabilities and reveal no differences in major themes
Garry D. Wheeler   +5 more
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RESEARCH ON SPORT ACTIVITY AT PERSONS WITH DISABILITY IN CROATIA

2011
Scientific knowledge gathered in the last few decades accentuates the importance of regular physical activity. There are more and more studies concerning the importance of physical activity in population with various disabilities. This research concentrates on a persons with disability who use wheelchair in everyday life.
Ciliga, Dubravka   +1 more
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Suitability of Sports Facilities for Persons with Disabilities

2011
Sports Facilities Standardizations and ...
Uzunković, Katarina   +3 more
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A personal development model of sport psychology for athletes with disabilities

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 1999
Abstract Achieving superior sport performance is often the result of well developed psychological skills (Morris & Thomas, 1995). However, little is known about psychological skill development in athletes with disabilities (Hanrahan, 1998). The purpose of the present paper is to help sport psychologists in their work with athletes with physical ...
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Sports for persons with disabilities: A bibliometric analysis of research landscape and future directions

Rehabilitación
Research on sports for persons with disabilities (PWDs) has grown significantly in recent years, particularly in parasports, disability sports, and adapted sports. Numerous studies have consistently highlighted the role of sports as a powerful tool for promoting social integration, enhancing psychological well-being, and improving the physical health ...
N. Cherappurath   +4 more
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Mega-sporting events and persons with disabilities

2023
Amy Farkas Karageorgos   +2 more
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Attitudes toward inclusion of persons with disabilities in sport activities

2009
Research in many countries has shown that the most common barriers to the participation of persons with disabilities in sport, in addition to the lack of previous experience in the sport and the lack of knowledge of how to include a person with disabilities in sport, are social prejudices toward sport engagement of people with disabilities.
Eminović, Fadilj   +3 more
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Sport physical activity in the process of evolution in disabled person

2015
Today disabled people lead a relatively independent life and require little assistance with the activities of daily living. There are, however, people with disabilities for which you require media of various kinds, from wheelchairs, guide dogs, to prosthetic devices.
Gaetano Altavilla   +2 more
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Design and development of mobility equipment for persons with disabilities in low-resource and tropical settings: bamboo wheelchairs

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2021
Kimberly E Ona Ayala   +2 more
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Coaching and sport for persons with disabilities

2019
Michael Horvat   +3 more
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