<p>This text details the delivery and value of recreation opportunities for persons with disabilities. Focusing on inclusive recreation, the authors offer concrete suggestions for integrating individuals with and without disabilities into the same recreational activities.</p>

Inclusive and Special Recreation: Opportunities For Persons With Disabilities with PowerWeb Bind-in Card

Kennedy, Dan

Hutchison, Peggy

Austin, David R.

Smith, Ralph W.

Kennedy, Dan W.

Smith,Ralph

Lee, Youngkhill

AUSTIN,DAVID

Sports & Outdoors

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Thirty years ago, spending one’s life in a large institution was, for most adults with developmental disabilities, the norm. Three decades later, theirs is a very different world. Deinstitutionalization has been heralded as bringing about a return to a life of “community.” To support adults with developmental disabilities so that they might live in our communities, new social policies have been adopted. As a result, these individuals, those who were released from large institutions to return to the community and those who have never experienced life in a large institution, are confronted with a new reality. This book explores that new reality, focusing on the adults themselves and their experiences.   The authors conducted one of the most extensive surveys of Canadian support services available for adults with developmental disabilities. Every province and territory contributed information on the services they offer, including how they are funded. After this initial survey, the authors visited five different regions of Canada where they conducted 141 in-depth interviews with the targeted adults, their families and support staff.   The testimony of these men and women endorses a social ecological theory of empowerment-in-community, central to which is the normative idea of a textured life. By opening our communities to adults with developmental disabilities, we will enable them to transcend the “world of disability” and enhance the texture of their lives.   Augmented by a concluding discussion on the implications of this study for social policy and social support, this new book will benefit all those concerned with helping individuals establish those textured lives.

A Textured Life : Empowerment and Adults With Development Disabilities

Politics & Social Sciences

DUNN, Peter

TAYLOR, ANDREW

Pedlar, Alison

Haworth, Larry

Philosophy

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Leisure Integration and Community

McGill, Judith

Leisurability Pub

Pathways to Inclusion: Building a New Story with People and Communities

LORD, JOHN

Captus Press

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