Sports for Children with Special Needs
Sports benefit all children and their families. They help build a child's self-image, connect children through healthy competition and help children to meet other children of like interests and situations. Sports can also teach children independence as well as teamwork and help improve health, discipline, and confidence.
Sports help children with special needs to be part of society. Sports help to promote a focus on the child's ability versus disability.
RESOURCES
- "I Know I Can Do It": Sports Are For Disabled Children, Too
- Ten Years Later: The Americans with Disabilities Act and Sports Programs
- Sports for Children with Various Disabilities
- Outdoor Activities for Children with Severe or Multiple Disabilities
- I Can Do It - You Can Do It: A nation-wide initiative supporting physical activity for children and youth with disabilities
ORGANIZATIONS
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Local
- Kern County Special Olympics
Special Olympics is a grass-roots movement that provides year-round sports training and athlete competition to children and adults with disabilities. For more information, please call 661.322.7598. - Mastering Abilities Riding Equines (M.A.R.E.)
M.A.R.E. is a therapeutic horse riding center that provides equine assisted programs to children and adults with physical and mental disabilities.National
- List of Disability Sports Organizations and Information by Need
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