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It is organized by the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability which also organizes championships in other sports. To participate in an INAS-FID event, an athlete must have an intellectual disability that was evident before the age of 18, significant limitations in adaptive behavior , and an IQ score below 75. [ 1 ]
In 2007, a group of athletes, coaches, volunteers, and parents based in San Diego split from Special Olympics Southern California to gain local control over disabled athletics programs. [14] This group – SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes (S4EA) – serves people with developmental disabilities within the age range of 5 years old through adults.
Competitors at elite level competitions are classified by disability, to arrange athletes with a similar disability in the same event. A classified T12 athlete for example, is a track athlete with a visual impairment. F = Field athletes; T = Track athletes; 11–13 = Visual impairment. 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide. 20 = Intellectual ...
Throughout his search, he came across Adaptive Training Foundation, a nonprofit organization that specializes in rehabilitation and functional training for athletes with disabilities.
About 6,000 athletes and officials from 184 delegations will parade from the Champs-Elysées to Place de la Concorde. It will be the first Paralympics Opening Ceremony held outside a stadium. The ...
Move United is an American non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of parasports among youths and adults with physical disabilities. The organization operates community parasports programs via over 150 local chapters across the country. [3]
The goal of the event was to give those in the general student body a new perspective on what athletes with disabilities go through in order to play these sports and to help them become advocates ...
Virtus Sport (formerly INAS or INAS Sport) (International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability; originally called INAS-FMH, later INAS-FID, INAS and now as Virtus Sport) is a federation which was established in 1986 by professionals in the Netherlands who were involved in sport and wanted to promote the participation of athletes with mental handicap in elite sports ...