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Special Olympics programs are available for athletes free of charge. More than 5.7 million athletes and Unified Sports partners are involved in Special Olympics sports training and competition in 204 countries and territories. [47] The organization offers year-round training and competition in 32 Olympic-style summer and winter sports. [48]
Sports on the program for the London Games including swimming, athletics, and table tennis. [24] Events on the London program for athletics included the long jump, shot put and 1,500 m. For swimming, it was the 200 m freestyle, 100 m breaststroke, and 100 m backstroke. [9] [21] 119 ID sportspeople participated in the 2012 Summer Paralympics. [28]
Disability sports classification is a system that allows for fair competition between people with different types of disabilities.. Historically, the process has been overseen by 2 groups: specific disability type sport organizations that cover multiple sports, and specific sport organizations that cover multiple disability types including amputations, cerebral palsy, deafness, intellectual ...
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Bridget A. Taylor is an American psychologist and behavior analyst, specializing in autism.She is the co-founder and CEO of Alpine Learning Group, a private school for children and adults with autism.
The University of North Carolina TEACCH Autism Program creates and disseminates community-based services, training programs, and research for individuals of all ages and skill levels with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), to enhance the quality of life for them and their families across the lifespan. [1]
Discrete trial training (DTT) is a technique used by practitioners of applied behavior analysis (ABA) that was developed by Ivar Lovaas at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). DTT uses mass instruction and reinforcers that create clear contingencies to shape new skills.
The World Abilitysport Games (known as the IWAS World Games before 2023) are a parasports multi-sport event for athletes who use wheelchairs or are amputees. Organized by World Abilitysport (formerly IWAS), the Games are a successor to the original Stoke Mandeville Games founded in 1948 by Ludwig Guttmann, and specifically the International Stoke Mandeville Games—the first international ...