Publications


Recreation


Title: The National Arts and Disability Center
Link: http://nadc.ucla.edu
Description: The National Arts and Disability Center offers a listing of Web sites for an arts and disability Web tour. Links are provided for visual and performing arts organizations with a disability or accessibility focus along with Web sites for individual artists with disabilities.

Title: National Institute of Art & Disabilities
Link: http://www.niadart.org
Description: The National Institute of Art & Disabilities (NIAD) provides an art program for people with developmental disabilities that promote creative expression, independence, dignity, and community integration.

Title: National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
Link: http://www.ncpad.org
Description: The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD) is an information center concerned with physical and leisure activities for individuals with disabilities. The NCPAD Web site provides information and resources for everyone, including guidelines to consider before starting any kind of exercise program and factsheets on many popular activites, games, recreational pursuits, and sports that have been adapted to allow people with disabilities to participate as fully as they wish, and to become as active as they wish. The information can be searched by type of disability/condition or by type of physical activity.
Source: EST

Title: Recreation: A Great Way to be Active
Link: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/pdfs/recbeactive.pdf
Description: This book, published by the North Carolina Office on Disability and Health, will guide you through steps to plan for more recreation in your life. It is also available in Spanish: http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/pdfs/recbeactivesp.pdf.
Source: EST

Title: Impact: Feature Issue on Social Inclusion Through Recreation for Persons with Disabilities
Link: http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/162/162.pdf
Description: While recent decades have witnessed a significant
increase in the participation of persons with developmental and other disabilities in
regular education classrooms and community workplaces, participation and inclusion are not the same thing. Many individuals with disabilities learn, work, and live alongside nondisabled peers, but too often they have little social connection to and few friendships with those around them. This issue of Impact proposes that one way to increase social inclusion is for individuals with and without disabilities to play together.
Source: NCLD/Youth

Title: Disabled Sports USA
Link: http://www.dsusa.org/index.html
Description: Disabled Sports USA (DS/USA)is a non-profit, nation-wide network of community-based chapters offering a variety of recreation programs. Each chapter sets its own agenda and activities. These may include one or more of the following: snow skiing; water sports (such as water skiing, sailing, kayaking, and rafting); cycling; climbing; horseback riding; golf; and social activities. DS/USA also partners with its chapters to increase youth sports involvement and to foster social interaction between people of all abilities through mentoring.
Source: EST

Title: The Principles of Universal Design
Link: http://www.design.ncsu.edu/cud/about_ud/udprinciplestext.htm
Description: Produced by North Carolina State University's Center for Universal Design, this document provides information on a wide range of design disciplines including environments, products, and communications. These seven principles may be applied to evaluate existing designs, to guide the design process, and to educate both designers and consumers about the characteristics of more usable products and environments.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth

Title: Learning Styles Explained
Link: http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm#What%20are
Description: This document discusses different types of learning styles. Learning styles are different approaches or ways of learning. Information about learning styles and Multiple Intelligence (MI) is helpful for everyone especially for people with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder. Knowing learning styles helps people develop coping strategies to compensate for their weaknesses and capitalize on their strengths.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth

Title: Universal Design of Instruction
Link: http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/Strategies/Universal/
Description: Designing any product or environment involves the consideration of many factors including aesthetics, engineering options, environmental issues, safety concerns, and cost. Often the design is created for the "average" user. In contrast, universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation. Universal design takes into consideration the variety of abilities, disabilities, racial/ethnic backgrounds, reading abilities, ages, and other characteristics of the group.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth

Title: Learning from Experience
Link: http://agelesslearner.com/intros/experiential.html
Description: This article provides an overview of Experiential Learning and offers resources such as Web sites, books, articles, and organizations.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth

Title: Project Adventure Glossary of Terms
Link: http://www.pa.org/about/glossary.php#
Description: This Web page lists a number of terms related to Experiential Learning and provides their definitions.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth

Title: What is Inclusion?
Link: http://www.inclusion.com./inclusion.html
Description: Inclusion is the act of engaging people with disabilities in all our daily activities - at school, at work, at home and in the community. This Web site offers information on Inclusion and different ways that people can adopt an inclusive attitude for people with disabilities.

This Web page has three articles of Inclusion. The first article is titled “What is Inclusion?” by Shafik Asante. This article describes the definition of Inclusion and its purpose.

The second article is called “Inclusion: It’s About Change!” by Jack Pearpoint and Marsha Forest. This article explains the objective of Inclusion, and points out the fear in change, but ways of over coming that fear.

The third article is titled “The Ethics of Inclusion: Three Common Delusions” by John O’Brien, Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint, Shafik Asante, and Judith Snow. This article points out some of the false interpretations of the meaning of Inclusion, and explains the misunderstandings and ways that we can avoid these misinterpretations.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth

Title: Social Inclusion Through Recreation. What’s the Connection?
Link: http://www.ici.umn.edu/products/impact/162/over2.html
Description: This article was written Brian Abery, a Project Director at the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. In this article, Mr. Abery explains what social inclusion is. He discuses how a social network for a person with a disability can be misinterpreted as inclusion, but in reality the person has unmet social needs. Mr. Abery provides an inside look at hindrances in the home, school, and work environments. Finally, he provides information on ways people can find inclusion in recreational activities.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth

Title: Our Voices: Our Community
Link: http://www.vermontcommunityworks.org/v
vrp/resources/OurVoicesCurric6-06pdf.pdf
Description: This document is a leadership development guide for young people. Our Voices: Our Community requires participants to draw on their experiences, build on their strengths, and work in partnerships in order to bring to bear all their resources. The curriculum guides them through Circles of Leadership centering on the personal and extending outward to their community and beyond. It concludes with the contributions individuals and groups make to the lives of their communities through a project. The curriculum itself is divided into individual modules, each focusing on a fundamental component of leadership skill-building. It is extremely flexible and provides for a broad range of learning capacities and styles. It can be used in school or community settings to help participants identify and reach their goals.
Source: Oklahoma Alliance for Youth