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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3148.2004.00209.x

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• 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