The Department of Youth and Employment will develop with schools a score of a program, in collaboration with the National Association of Adapted Sports (ANDA) for the prevention and integration of disability.
This project is aimed primarily at schoolchildren between 12 and 15 years, and will take place between November and June.
'Integration is a sport' is an educational intervention program that ANDA has been developing since 2006 with the aim of consolidating in school structure harmonious and healthy personality.
It also has an integrated approach in which played an essential role of other adults around the child, parents and teachers.
This is also the integration of persons with disabilities through sports, through education and practice of integrative activities in any of the categories and forms
The number of direct beneficiaries of this program will be more than 9,500 students and 350 teachers.
Be held with staff trained to effect, at least two people per session, which will be disabled for the school they can do all kinds of questions.
The speakers discussed what type of disability they have and what was the cause of it, to continue with a brief biography for kids to learn that your life is not very different from any of them or of their parents and siblings older.
Will last approximately 30 minutes, then 15 minutes reserved for questions from the audience, trying in responses that are not only good integrators in the future but inviting them to be right now, volunteer support to organizations or developing its life and actions from the standpoint of inclusive (no parking on ramps, leaving the bike on the sidewalk, helping people with special needs, etc..).
After the talk-talk, teachers will be presented with material specifically for the performance of the adapted sports exhibition to be held within the premises of the Centre.
These tools allow students to immerse themselves in the disability and they put some physical limitations and / or sensory impairments that are matched to a particular disability, such as reduce vision goggles, fins that prevent normal movement of the lower extremities, plugs ears ...
Thus, students will practice various adapted sports:
• Wheelchair Basketball: The students will release free throws from a wheelchair, field movements, passes the ball, etc.
• Athletics: Race a wheelchair as 50 meter dash, or making careers in guiding blind 100 m
• Wheelchair Tennis: Kicks, exchange of rally, etc.
• Badminton chair: Like tennis, will be held with the students sitting in a wheelchair.
• Goal-ball: Sports specifically designed for blind or visually impaired.
Is to throw a ball sound (with bells) around the track by one of the teams and the opposite goal to avoid an injection.
• Volleyball: Students sit on the floor and play with reduced mobility.
It limits the field and the height of the network decreases
• Football: With the help of glasses that reduced visibility, the students played using a ball of sound.
Also play this sports specialty hearing impaired.
To close the Project significantly for both schools, as students, it offers the possibility to perform in May, a day of meetings between the institutions participating in the program.
During this conference would be held sporting events between students from different schools to promote integration and participation of all, working the sports that were on visits to schools (basketball, athletics, badminton ... etc.), And including some more such as fencing or archery.
At the same time will be different sporting activities where participants can experience the experience of having a physical disability, through various circuits.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia