Articles

Knowledge Mobilization

Para Sport

Leveraging parasport events for sustainable community participation

October 3, 2017

View the summary of this research here. The aim of this project was to examine how the hosting of different forms of sport events for persons with disabilities were being leveraged to create opportunities for community participation, and influence community...

Program Design and Evaluation

Knowledge Mobilization

Sport Participation Research Initiative

Inclusion in the Field(s) of Dreams?

October 3, 2017

The purpose of this project was to explore issues surrounding segregated sport for people with impairments and to address the question of whether or not segregated sport perpetuates inequity (Fay & Wolff, 2009). The specific objectives included: (1) Identifying the...

Indigenous

Knowledge Mobilization

LGBTQI2S

Policy and program considerations for increasing sport participation among members of underrepresented groups in Canada

December 12, 2016

Sue Cragg

Sport should be available and responsive to the needs of all Canadians who want to participate. However, members of a number of groups do not participate at the same rates as their mainstream counterparts. Some women and girls, Indigenous peoples,...

Athlete Development

Long-Term Development

Examining Difference: LTAD and Athletes with a Disability

April 6, 2016

Jason Dunkerley

Canada’s Long Term Athlete Development Model offers an important conceptual framework to chart athlete development along the continuum of sport participation from playground to podium. Yet among athletes with a disability, each of whom enters and engages within the sport...

Addressing Barriers to Physical Activity

February 24, 2016

Being physically active is such an important part of everyday life. Research has shown that being physically active goes a long way in helping prevent many different diseases, including Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and depression. Despite this research, statistics...

Program Design and Evaluation

High Performance

Para Sport

The Paradox of Integration: Building a Panacea or Exacerbating a Partition?

February 10, 2016

Jason Dunkerley

Canada prides itself for celebrating difference. In recent years, NSO’s too have embraced diversity by welcoming athletes with disabilities through a policy of integration intended to level the playing field and elicit podium success. Although this progressive approach aims to...

Coaching

Coaching Tips – making sport inclusive for all

August 5, 2015

For most people, the first youthful experiences within sport have a dramatic effect on the long-term idea of what they are capable of and if positive, can pave the way for future success. Unfortunately it’s common for children with disabilities...

Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships

July 21, 2014

The Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships which runs from June 20-28, are underway at the Mattamy Center in Toronto. This tournament will host 12 of the best women’s wheelchair basketball teams on the planet, all of whom hope to lay...