Paralympic Games

56). This fact appears to be the supreme achievement of any game-player because games offer a new perspective upon new rewards and a new way of learning but, anyway, too many hours spent in front of the computer while playing games may be harmful to the children health, as W. J. Potter, contrary to Johnson, asserts that ”this reduces a child’s ability and desire to read, and hence a child’s ability

I chose Special Olympics as my nonprofit organization because I think more people need to know more about it. The Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to 5.7 million athletes and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. Special Olympics competitions are held every day, all around the world—including local, national and regional competitions, adding up to more than 100,000

Disability sports was initially created to help rehabilitate war veterans, since then it has become extremely popular and occurs across the globe. Historically, disability sports has not received very much attention, the problem is that we don’t have enough organized programs for the younger generations. There are plenty of after-school programs out there for able-bodied children, such as football or soccer, but there is a considerable lack in the amount of programs for disabled children, accessibility

Eli Clare, identifies himself as a disabled person suffering from CP. However, he doesn’t let his disability bother him. He is known as a “supercrip” to rest of society because he uses his body to it’s maximum advantage. He is seen as the more dominant figure of those who are disabled, all because he is able to walk, run, and travel on his feet for miles and miles despite his disability. Clare points out that majority of the people forget that disabled people still can function in some aspects as

decrease the level of judgement. Authors emphasized differences in attitudes towards the Paralympic movement which are often ambiguous. On the other hand people admire the will-power and the prowess of Paralympians and consider them as heroic in overcoming the difficulties; however, they feel pity for these sportsmen and women. While Olympic Games promoting the survival of the fittest, the Paralympic Games have evolved in a space of liminality lodge and a charity event, and always fallowing in second

Project Final Draft The composition of employee engagement with importance of employee engagement By Lin Dou Class: Managing People And Performance Student Number: S1438246 Project Tutor: Julie Wade Date: 12 April 2015 Word count: 2046 Introduction The organization is developing cannot without employee engagement, during the past decade, employee engagement have experienced the pressures of innovation, reform, become a mature system to use in company development. A succeed organization

tetraplegia, this is where all four limbs are paralysed and most commonly as a result of a neck injury (Disabled World, 2010) Wheelchair Rugby was created as an adaptation of wheelchair basketball, by reducing the amount of hand and arm actions to make the game inclusive for quadriplegic athletes; this was done by removing dribbling. Athletes were classified on their medical diagnosis, in relation to the level of their spinal injury. In 1991 this was changed to a functional classification specific to wheelchair

injured or wounded during World War II. Dr. Guttmann was one of the pioneer of the wheelchair games which was later introduced in the London Olympics. His main goal was to organize a worldwide sports competition for people with disabilities to be held every four years as “the equivalent of the Olympic Games.” Twelve years later, he reached his goal. In 1960, the first Paralympics was held in Rome, where 400 athletes participated from 13 countries. Originally, only those wheelchair

Athletics and Persons with Disabilities It wasn’t that long ago when the words “athletics” and “persons with disabilities” did not belong together. If a person was born with a physical or intellectual disability, sports fell into the group of activities that were excluded from their life. If an athlete acquired a physical or intellectual disability, sports became an activity they could no longer participate in. Sports and athletic pursuits belonged solely to non-disabled persons. Persons with

although disabled, show more courage and bravery than anyone, fighting just as hard and just as rough as in traditional rugby. Being a full contact sport, wheelchair contact is an essential part of the game. A rougher version of bumper cars, the players show extreme athleticism throughout the 32-minute game. Mark Zupan, a red head with a fiery temper and pivotal player on the USA team, describes the ratings of each player based on their mobility in their upper body. The team’s score cannot exceed 8 points