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While sport has value in everyone's life, it’s even more important in the lives of people with disabilities. Unbeknownst to many, athletes with disabilities compete in sports at elite levels, in which qualifying times are only fractions behind athletes without disabilities. Competitive sports for athletes with disabilities (AWD) has dramatically increased over the past two decades in both disability-specific competitions and mainstream sporting events alongside able-bodied competitors.
Barriers to sports for children and adults with a disability.
The goal of the Brick 44 Athletic Initiative is to bring awareness, resources, and support to competitive athletes with disabilities. Participation in athletic activities is the context in which people form friendships, develop skills and competencies, express creativity, achieve mental and physical health, and determine meaning and purpose in life.
This initiative also aims to improve and offer better health outcomes for people with disabilities. With good health, people with disabilities have the freedom to work, learn and actively engage in their families and their communities. In typically developing children, participation in sports has been proven to be positively correlated to both physical and psycho-social health outcomes.
This organization provides handcycles to children (18 and under) with a permanent physical disability.
CAF’s flagship grant program aims to remove the barriers that exist between athletes with disabilities and their pursuit of competitive sports and fitness.
Individuals worldwide with permanent physical disabilities are eligible to apply for the CAF grant. Teams, organizations, etc. are not eligible to apply. Hearing impairments, Intellectual and developmental disabilities do not qualify for support through CAF. Medical Verification of Disability is required.
Applicants may request one of the following grant types:
– Sports Expenses Grant
– Equipment Grant
Through Operation Rebound specific grant requests and sport clinics, CAF is there to support our service members from Frontline to Finish line.
Challenged Athletes who are honorably discharged members of the U.S. armed forces, active military personnel, as well as U.S. law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics are eligible to apply for the Operation Rebound grant. Proof of service and medical verification of their disability is required.
Applicants may request one of the following grant types:
– Sports Expenses Grant
– Equipment Grant
CAF is proud to partner with Össur to provide sports prostheses to individuals with lower extremity amputations and limb differences.
Individuals applying for CAF’s Össur grant for athletic prostheses must have lower extremity amputations or limb differences. This program offers athletic prostheses from Össur’s Sport Solutions collection. Individuals may only apply for eligible Össur products.
CAF will work with an applicant’s prosthetist to determine which Össur running prosthesis(es) offered on the CAF Össur grant application is most suitable for the applicant.
The CAF Össur Grant application is year-round
Find out if an Idaho Grant is the best option for you and your family. Learn about eligibility, grant request options, the application window, and more.
1. Residents of Idaho with permanent physical disabilities are eligible to apply for the CAF Idaho grant. Teams, organizations, etc. are not eligible to apply. Hearing impairments, Intellectual and developmental disabilities do not qualify for support through CAF.
2. Medical documentation of their disability and proof of residence is required.
Applicants may request one of the following grant types:
1. Sports Expenses Grant
2. Equipment Grant
3. Funding Towards Equipment
Application Window
Applications Accepted Year round and are reviewed on an monthly basis
Challenged Athletes Foundation is proud to partner with EOS Fitness to offer a free membership in select locations to eligible athletes with disabilities.
Challenged athletes residing near an EOS Fitness Location (must use membership a minimum of 4x per year). Medical Verification of Disability is required.
The grant recipient will work with CAF and EOS Fitness to start their membership.
The CAF EOS Fitness Grant application is open year-round.
The Kelly Brush Foundation is dedicated to making active lifestyles a reality for anyone with a spinal cord injury.
Through the Active Fund, they provide grants for individuals with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury to purchase adaptive sports equipment.
Funding Criteria:
Grants may be awarded to cover competition/event-related costs.
Application process:
Grant Applications can be submitted throughout the year and will be reviewed in accordance with the posted filing deadlines. We encourage applicants to submit an application as soon as they identify their need for funding. While it’s not a guarantee, occasionally, we are able to consider requests outside of the bi-annual application review periods posted.
Funding evaluation shall include assessment of an applicant’s:
• financial need
• unique athletic potential
• requested use of funds
• availability of alternative sources of funding
• NCAA amateur eligibility status
Their goal is to help those they serve by providing innovative, life-changing equipment. This includes visual-enhancement devices, software programs for alternative communication systems, water softener systems for catastrophic burns, and specialized wheelchairs. These assistive technologies help those re-engage in creative and unique ways with their community and the world!
Accessibility Bridge works closely with a National Sports Organization dedicated to transforming the lives of athletes with Down Syndrome who want to develop and compete in sports. Through this partnership, we are able to provide resources and information for Basketball, Gymnastics , Soccer, Skiing, Swimming, Tennis.
Accessibility Bridge has committed to working with a National Organization with a mission of creating opportunities, supports and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; so that they can develop and maintain healthy lifestyles and reach their highest potential in sport and in life.
This resource helps US athletes identify coaching, training and competition opportunities at the national, regional and local level with a focus on the integration of athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities into mainstream and Paralympic sport. It also provides opportunities for competitive athletes with disabilities to compete at the International level.
This resource provides eligibility and advocacy for athletes in Track & Field, Basketball (in development), Equestrian, Golf, Karate, Rowing, Skiing (in development), Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo and Tennis.
Lawrence Sapp works hard both in and out of the pool. He spends many hours practicing and met his goal of being the first male with autism and an intellectual impairment to represent the United States in Paralympic swimming in Tokyo this past summer. This is a behind the scenes look at his training and a few competitions.
4x Paralympic Gold Medalist Mckenzie Coan, describes how she is dealing with lockdown and getting ready for Tokyo 2021!
Coca-Cola and Special Olympics Present: "Reach up" Video. For every share of the #ReachUp YouTube video, Coca-Cola will donate $1 to the Special Olympics
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. As the director of the Inclusive Sports Initiative at the Institute for Human Centered Design, co-director of the Royce Fellowship for Sport and Society at Brown University, and a member of the United States Soccer Team in the 1996 and 2004 Paralympic Games, Eli A. Wolff challenges us to consider the power of inclusion for people with and without disabilities in sport and beyond.
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