Compass is working with Sporting Wheelies Qld and the Department of Sport & Recreation to develop integrated sports based activities for people with disabilities both inside and outside Compass. These programmes will be conducted both inside and outside service hours and will utilise specially designed Sports Ability Kits. (below)
Sports Ability Kit
Sports Ability is an exciting inclusive games program developed by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) to encourage people with disability to get involved and participate in sport and active recreation.
Sports Ability has two main aims:
- to provide people delivering sport or physical activities with more ways of including people with disability.
- a means for people with and without disability to interact in a sporting environment.
Sports Ability is appropriate for everyone including:
- people with or without disability
- young people through to senior citizens
What does Sports Ability consist of?
There are three elements of the Sports Ability inclusive games program including:
- equipment for a variety of inclusive games, three of which are Paralympic sports.
- resource material, consisting of easy to use activity cards and instructional DVDs that detail game rules, equipment required and suggested modification for all abilities
- hands-on training in each state and territory through the Sports CONNECT network. Sports Ability training provides participants with an opportunity to learn about all the activities and how they promote inclusion. Workshops are easy to organise, inexpensive, practical and fun.
Sports Ability Games
The Sports Ability program includes the following games, these games can be used developmentally or to provide new pathways in disability sport:
- Boccia (Paralympic sport) - A bowls-type target game played at the Paralympics suitable for all abilities, and provides an ideal vehicle for inclusion.
- Goalball (Paralympic sport) - An exciting invasion game developed for players who have a vision impairment that introduces new challenges to both sighted an vision-impaired players.
- Sitting volleyball (Paralympic sport) – A sport for players who cannot participate in standing volleyball. As all players remain seated during play, sitting volleyball is an excellent inclusive game.
- Polybat – An accessible version of table tennis, particularly useful for young players who have coordination and control impairments. Polybat can also be used to introduce younger children to table tennis.
- Table cricket - A dynamic table version of cricket for players of all abilities, but specifically those with complex or higher support needs. It retains the three main elements of cricket – batting, bowling, and fielding – as well as most of the rules.
- Tee ball – A striking, fielding, throwing, catching and movement game easily modified for a range of abilities.
- Hockey – A dynamic invasion game with adapted rules and equipment.
- Targeting and bean bag games – A range of individual, cooperative and competitive games.
- Traditional Indigenous games - Traditional Indigenous games that can be adapted and modified.
