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Disability sport calendar. January 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM ... 3-7 French Open wheelchair tennis event, ... OCTOBER. 7-19: European Wheelchair Basketball Championships, Sarajevo.
Easter Seals (1916) – an international organization that provides services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
The National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization [1] that began in 1970 providing ski lessons for children with amputations. Today, the NSCD is one of the largest therapeutic recreation organizations in the world, serving more than 3,000 children and adults with disabilities. [2]
In November 2022, CPISRA merged with IWAS (International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation) to form World Abilitysport. CPISRA and IWAS were both IOSD members of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Combined they are the IPC’s IOSD for persons with physical disability.
Move United was formed in 2020 as a merger of two organizations; Disabled Sports USA, which was first founded in 1956 and based in Rockville, Maryland, [4] [5] and Adaptive Sports USA, a second organization founded in 1967. Move United is a member of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. [6]
On an average day, Meals on Wheels delivers about 4,000 meals across the state. Because of current conditions, they delivered more to help people get through the winter storm.
The Move United Junior Nationals [1] (formerly the National Junior Disability Championships and the Adaptive Sports USA Junior Nationals) is an annual multi-sport event organized by Move United (formerly Adaptive Sports USA) for junior athletes between the ages of 6 and 22 who have disabilities, with sports including para-athletics.
Sports for persons with physical disabilities began to be organized in the US in the late 1960s through Disabled Sports USA. Disabled Sports USA was established in 1967 by disabled military veterans, including Jim Winthers, [6] to help rehabilitate the injured soldiers returning from Vietnam [7] and originally named the National Amputee Skiers ...