Games & Recreational Activity For Physically Disabled
Games & Recreational Activity For Physically Disabled
Games & Recreational Activity For Physically Disabled
For PHCs
Dr Saim Ali Soomro. Deputy Director (PHC).
While sport has value in everyone's life, it is even more important in the life of a person with a disability. This is because of the rehabilitative influence sport can have not only on the physical body but also on rehabilitating people with a disability into society. Furthermore, sport teaches independence. Nowadays, people with a disability participate in high performance as well as in competitive and recreational sport. The number of people with disabilities involved in sport and physical recreation is steadily increasing around the world with organized sports for athletes with disabilities divided into three main disability groups, sports for the deaf, sports for persons with physical disabilities, and sports for persons with intellectual disabilities. Now various national & International Forums available for disabled Sports.(Physically Handicapped).
Role of Games..
Games can be..Physical, mental, Indoor & out Door, traditional or Modern , Table games or Board games, team games or individual sports. etc, etc.. There is a new class of games since last one or two decades, they are Computer based educational or recreational games!
Physical sports
Board games: like Chess, Ludo, Kror pati, Indoor Physical games: Table tennis, Badminton, indoor basket ball(wheel chair)
Paralympic sports:
Special Olympics Deaf sports Other Disability Sports Extremity Games Alpine skiing Archery Athletics *Basketball ID Boccia *Bowls *Cue sports Cycling Equestrian Football 5-a-Side Football 7-a-Side Goalball
Ice sledge hockey *Ice sledge racing Judo *Nine-pin bowling Nordic Skiing Powerlifting Sailing Shooting *Showdown Swimming Table tennis *Ten-pin bowling Tennis *Torball Volleyball Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair curling *Wheelchair dance sport Wheelchair fencing Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair tennis