He continues to be a disabled sports policy expert and access advocate.

Paul Wade is known to be a big supporter of disabled sports.

This scheduling helps to foster greater interest in disabled sports.

Two disabled sports, athletics and swimming, were also contested in the Games.

After graduating from college in 1984, Diana began building the greatest career in the history of disabled sports.

Those visits introduced the newly injured to disabled sports.

Following his loss of eyesight he began practicing disabled sports in athletics and swimming.

Most of the soldiers here had never heard of disabled sports, much less an Olympic-level competition.

Around the same time Christiansen got into surf lifesaving, he also became involved in the disabled sports movement.

"I look at it as women's sports having once been in the same place as disabled sports," she said.

Founded in 1998, the Federation brought together a number of organizations who had separately promoted disabled sports before its creation.

"People need to think of disabled sports as sports played by people with different physical compositions."

Two disabled sports - athletics and swimming - were also held, each comprising two events.

Since the illness was revealed, Chew became a member of the local disabled sports club, and has been taking swimming lessons to strengthen his body.

He became involved in disabled sports at a young age, organising wheelchair races while in secondary school.

Disabled sports are now part of the Winter Paralympic Games.

Amongst his other titles, he was the honorary president of the Bahrain disabled sports federation.

After an accident in his late twenties left him a paraplegic he eventually became involved in disabled sports.

His own efforts took the form of participating in a variety of sports committees to speak up for disabled sports.

Wheelchair basketball - designed for disabled people in wheelchairs and is considered one of the major disabled sports practiced.

Following her military service she began practicing disabled sports, attempting to achieve the criteria for the 1992 Summer Paralympics.

The disabled sports teams are represented on campus side by side with the able-bodied teams.

He is a trainer and coordinator for the Spanish disabled sports organisation, Play and Train.

Disabled sports also adaptive sports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities.

Since this accident he moved in a wheelchair and became also a champion for disabled sports and wheelchair racing.

Those same characteristics will also lead to satisfaction and success in adaptive sports.

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In 2011, over 1,000 severely wounded warriors were provided adaptive sports opportunities.

Adaptive sports provide community integration, high life satisfaction, and true empowerment for those living with a disability.

An athlete at heart, she stayed active in adaptive sports, but avoided swimming - her first love.

Extreme Recess provides children with disabilities the opportunity to participate in adaptive sports, often for the very first time.

They also cleaned the docks where the hospital keeps sailboats for its adaptive sports programs and did clerical work.

Adaptive Sports Iowa believes sport and recreational opportunities should not be inhibited by physical impairments.

Disabled sports also adaptive sports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities.

Disabled Veterans of all ages and abilities report better health, new friendships and a better quality of life when participating in adaptive sports.

Muffy Davis is also a founding and honorary board member of Sun Valley Adaptive Sports.

Both in individual or team settings, this adaptive sports program greatly improves WII Marines' overall physical and mental fitness.

The Extremity Games is an adaptive sports competition, similar to the X Games, for athletes with amputations and limb differences.

The RIC Health and Fitness Center provides exercise classes, personal training and adaptive sports for people with physical impairments.

- Sports and Disability- A look at the participation of individuals with disabilities in sports and recreation as well as the development of adaptive sports.

The Adaptive Sports Center at Crested Butte, Colo., was founded in 1987 to provide and promote outdoor recreation to people with developmental and physical disabilities.

Wrestling Andover High School and the other schools in the Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 have created a team for adaptive sports, for students with special needs.

Organizations such as the Challenged Athletes Foundation have been developed to give amputees the opportunity to be involved in athletics and adaptive sports such as Amputee Soccer.

Their flagship J.A.W.S. (Just Add Water Surfing) program is a Costa Rica-based, adaptive sports adventure program.

Ocean Healing Group (OHG) is an international nonprofit organization that provides once in a lifetime, Costa Rica based, adaptive sports adventures and quality of life programs to children with disabilities.

This will be the first facility in North Dakota focused on empowering disabled skiers and their families to enjoy outdoor sports during winter while also providing a year-round facility to accommodate other adaptive sports.

Disabled Sports USA - The national organization that provides over 40 different adaptive sports to over 60,000 people with disabilities in the US through a network of over 100 community-based chapters.

The Achilles Track Club, an organization dedicated to the promotion of running among disabled athletes, is one of more than 20 groups in New York that support adaptive sports, games tailored to the needs of participants.

Edina has also produced the 2010 Ed Prohofsky Award winner for the MVP of the MSHSL Adaptive Sports League, CJ Duffey.

Including being CEO of the Ocean Healing Group, a non-profit (501c3) dedicated to providing once in a lifetime adaptive sports adventures in Costa Rica, to children who use wheelchairs and their parents.

Raphael Botsyo (a three-time Paralympian for Ghana) has joined Right to Dream as the Development Officer for parasports programme.

Right to Dream's parasports programme aims to develop young, disabled athletes into sporting role models and medal winners who will fly the Ghanaian flag at Rio 2016 and beyond - transforming the perception of disability in Ghana and ensuring a powerful legacy from London 2012.