Sport Opportunities Research Articles

The Creation of Appropriate Integration Opportunities in Sport for Disabled and Nondisabled People: A Guide for Research and Action

Despite the stigma usually attached to disabled people, and the attendant difficulty in picturing disabled people in “normal” societal roles interacting and competing with nondisabled people, a mandate for integrating disabled and nondisabled people in all areas of society has been thrust upon Americans during the past decade through judicial, legal, and social pressures and political action. This paper focuses on the appropriate integration of disabled and nondisabled people in sport. It considers some potentially salient personal attribute and background parameters (i.e., type and severity of disability and amount of sports background) and sports structure parameters (i.e., type of sport, amount of disability adaptation, and degree of competition) that could affect the extent to which integration efforts in sport result in genuine integration and a reduction in the stigmatization and handicapped minority status of disabled people. It is hoped that this paper, and the general hypotheses it proposes about appropriate integration, will serve to guide future research and informed action in program planning and implementation aimed at integrating disabled and nondisabled people in sport.

Life in the French Polynesian Islands.

Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Moorea are three islands of French Polynesia, any one of which could be the setting for Bali Hal. All offer outstanding opportunities for water sports, biking, or hiking.

Sports Opportunities for the Disabled.

(1981). Sports Opportunities for the Disabled. The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 37-37.

Hawaii: A Sporting Excursion on the Big Island.

In this recreational paradise, opportunities for golf, tennis, and water sports abound; but one can also make a sport of merely driving and exploring its beautiful volcanic shores and mountains.

The role of a department of physical education in a university

A department of Physical Education in a university may make contri? butions to university life and studies in three separate ways. First, there is the need to provide facilities and other opportunities for sport and physical recreation for the students. No university in Great Britain would question this need, but the extent of the need, whether the need involved anything in addition to the provision of facilities and whether "additions" should include a department of Physical Education, would be subjects of energetic debate in many universities. The views stated in this article on these and on other topics are my own and not in any sense " official'' or authoritative. It can be confidently asserted that many people share the views put forward but many would be contested, some, I believe, by my own colleagues. As with so many discussions concerning universities in Great Britain, it is necessary to make a broad distinction between the older universities, frequently referred to nowadays as Oxbridge, and the newer, provincial universities often compendiously referred to as Redbrick. In Oxbridge in the late nineteenth century and probably till 1914, there were certain distinctive features. The Universities themselves were

Sports Opportunities for Girls and Women

Sports Opportunities for Girls and Women

Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, C.I.E

BY the death of Mr. Stuart Baker on April 16 at the age of seventy-nine, ornithology, and especially Indian ornithology, has lost one of its most eminent exponents. He was born in 1864; after being educated at Trinity College, Stratford-on-Avon, he followed his father's career in entering the Indian Police Force in 1883. Nearly all his service was spent in Assam, then, even more so than now, a wild mountainous region peopled by primitive and savage tribes, which offered unbounded opportunities for sport and the observation of wild life, of which he took every advantage. He rose to be officiating inspector of police for the Province in 1910; in 1912 he was selected to reorganize the special police force of the Port of London Authority, a post which he held until he retired in 1925.