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Jason McElwain, nicknamed J-Mac (born October 20, 1988), is an American amateur athlete in basketball and marathon running, and a public speaker with high-functioning autism. In a 2006 high-school basketball game, he scored 20 points in the final few minutes of the contest, a feat which attracted international media attention.
Breanna Clark (born November 4, 1994) is an American Paralympic athlete who has competed in T20 category races. She was diagnosed with autism at age four. [ 1 ]
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 ...
For one day, a mother of a middle school kid with autism didn't have to worry if her son was eating lunch alone. That's because one Florida State football player made sure Bo Paske had a lunch buddy.
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Arleta Meloch, T20 world record holding athlete at three distances. T20 is a disability sport classification for disability athletics in track and jump events. It broadly covers athletes with intellectual disabilities.
The Best Male Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award is an annual award honoring the achievements of a male individual from the world of disabled sports. [1] Established with the aid of disability advocate and former United States Paralympic soccer player Eli Wolff, [2] the accolade's trophy, designed by sculptor Lawrence Nowlan, [3] is presented to the disabled sportsman adjudged to be the best ...
Swimmers who have an intellectual impairment, for example autism and other learning disabilities, which typically leads to athletes having difficulties with regards to pattern recognition, sequencing and memory or having a slower reaction time which can impact on sport performance in general. Moreover, these classed swimmers show a high number ...