TITLE:
Striking Down Barriers: Parents’ Perspectives of Youth Sport Programs for Their Children with Disabilities
AUTHORS:
Sara E. Corning, Caroline J. Ketcham, Eric E. Hall
KEYWORDS:
Accommodations, Neurodiversity, Volunteer Training, Inclusion
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Physical Education,
Vol.10 No.4,
November
19,
2020
ABSTRACT: Participation in sports provides
opportunity for children to improve cognitively, physically, and socially. The
purpose of this study was to explore family experiences and expectations in
sport experiences specifically targeted to children with disabilities, and the
relationship to volunteer/coach training. An online questionnaire was
distributed to parents with children in these sport experiences (n = 56).
Measures of quality of life were included as well as open-ended questions
around motivation to join programs, expectations, challenges, role
volunteers/coaches play, and barriers of program involvement for their child
and family. Results showed that family quality of life and well-being on the
pediatric quality of life inventory were both significantly lower for children
with multiple disabilities compared to one disability (p