Framed by a social approach to disability and leisure constraints theory, this paper presents the results of a national study examining the constraints to sport participation for people with disability. Responses were obtained from a multi-platform questionnaire survey capturing data on constraints ...

The hosting of major events presents an opportunity to shape public policy and potentially enable social change. In this article we discuss two different parasport events, the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Toronto Pan Am/Parapan American Games, which espoused a philosophy of social...

The six articles in this special issue contribute theoretical understandings and best practices aimed at managing sport events to attain desired benefits to host communities. Those benefits include sport participation, positive changes in health behaviour, participation in charity-related...

The Invictus Games are a parasport competition for service members and veterans with illnesses and injuries. The 2014 Games were aired by the BBC, for a total of 12 hr of coverage. This study aimed to investigate what messages were conveyed regarding parasport for veterans during the BBC's Invictus ...

Because youth with disabilities participate less in physical activity than young people without disabilities and that schools play an important role in adopting a healthy lifestyle, it is important to deepen our understanding of the elements that foster participation of young people with ...

Young people with disabilities participate in sports to a lesser extent than other adolescents. That physical activity has positive effects on young people are understood. Sports clubs are identified as potential environments for physical activity. The reasons why young people with disabilities...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the value of education of sports activity in relation to special educational needs, according to International Classification Functioning, Disability and Health. In fact, recent years have seen a paradigm shift from school integration to social inclusion, a new ...

The objective of this study was to compare life satisfaction (LS) scores of active individuals (n=200) with individuals living a sedentary life style (n=280) who have three different kinds of disabilities (n=480). The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was used as the primary research method....

This article analyzes the approach to children and adolescent participation in disability studies. Methodologically, it combines a literature review and a theme-based content analysis to look at which dimensions of participation are explored in the literature. As the result of this study we...

This paper examines the service dimensions required to be inclusive of people with access needs within a major-sport event context. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities seeks to counter disability discrimination and enable citizenship rights of people with ...