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Sport Opportunities for Collegiate Students with Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Review of Current Program Offerings, Barriers, and Facilitators

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  • Students with disabilities are not being afforded the same access to sporting opportunities as their peers without disabilities. The purpose of this dissertation was to build on a foundation of information regarding collegiate adaptive sports through a Critical Disabilities Studies lens. Specific aims included: (1) identifying and describing intercollegiate, adaptive athletics programs in the US, (2) examining facilitators and barriers to existing intercollegiate, adaptive athletics programs in the US. Qualitative survey findings from program stakeholders (N=14) were organized through Slack & Parent’s sport organization categories (2006) for robust understanding. Perhaps the most interesting finding was diversity in the structure of programs, despite their common goal. Further case study design including current intercollegiate adaptive programs (N=3) revealed an underlying vision of programmatic institutionalization within their housed university. This vision illuminated programmatic barriers and facilitators which can inform future initiative direction, including policy, with the voices from the community at the center.
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