SPORT AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Sport can play a key role in the lives and communities of people with disabilities, the same as their peers without a disability. However, additional benefits include: Socialization through sport is particularly valuable for people with disabilities as they often remain in the home environment, protected and guarded by their families. Participation in sport creates peer interaction, co-operative relationships and teamwork. Sport can also play a significant role in reducing the focus on the impairment or disability of the person and places the focus on their abilities. This leads to empowerment and greater self-confidence that can be applied to other realms of life, for example employment. Disability sport programmes serve to strengthen participants both mentally and physically, promote rehabilitation, and facilitate a capacity for self-help. Sport can promote the inclusion of girls and women who experience double stigmatization. By involving participants with and without a disability in the same programmes there is increased understanding and sensitivity about one another and it can assist with preventing social exclusion.
Sport presents a very powerful tool for engaging socially vulnerable young people in an organised context and offers an opportunity to work with them.Reaching young people who are socially vulnerable constitutes a first vital step in working with them toward broader developmental and social objectives.
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