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Paralympic Sport Club, Las Vegas Clark County School District City of Las Vegas

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Paralympic Sport Club CLV & CCSD

Paralympic Sport Paralympic Sport Paralympic Sport Club Club Community- Club Competition School-based based Programs Teams Programs * Club LV is designed to introduce children and adults of all ages who have physical or visual disabilities to Paralympic sports *Brought to you by: Clark County School District Adapted PE & City of Las Vegas, Adaptive Recreation

*Club features Paralympic Sports: *Indoors: Wheelchair and Rugby; ; Self-defense; Table ; ; ; Goal Ball (visually impaired); Weightlifting; Power Soccer and Wheelchair Soccer; , , Target Shooting (Wii); ; AND ICE SKATING & SLED HOCKEY!! *Outdoors: Track & Field; ; Tennis; , Ambulatory Soccer; Cycling & Trikkes (Adaptive bikes, Tandem for VI and Hand cycles for non-ambulatory) Shared vision Shared Resources Expand equipment inventories Expand staff Expand Facility choices Expand participant contacts Lifetime Transition Paralympic Sport Programming Strategies: School-based Programs

Know the Law: *IDEA 2004 (Re-Authorization) * non-academic300.107 (a) States and thatextracurricular each public services agency andmust activities take steps…. in the to manner provide necessary to afford children with disabilities an equal opportunity for those services and activities. (b) Non-academic and extracurricular services and activities may include… athletics, transportation… recreational activities, special interest groups or clubs sponsored by the public agency…. *Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 *New guidelines were release January 25, 2013 from the US Department of - physicalEducation’s or intellectual-Office of Civil must Rights be afforded stating equalthat students opportunity with todisabilities participate in club, intramural and interscholastic athletics at all levels Working within the School system: *State to state, school district to school district, Adapted Physical education services take on different forms. *Some districts have APE purely as a consultation to general physical education programs. *APE may only see students with more significant disabilities that inhibit their access to the general physical education curriculum. * - access.Some APE teachers still teach “self contained” Adapted PE classes, without peer *Some states/district refuse to acknowledge that IDEA requires PE access for students with disabilities, specially design if necessary. * areIn someon the states/districts sideline keeping that score.don’t have APE services, students with disabilities With the advent of inclusion, students with physical disabilities and vision impairments, within normal intelligence range, attend neighborhood schools instead of self-contained specialized schools or specialized classrooms on general education campuses. Because students are scattered throughout school districts, identifying Paralympic-eligible students have become increasingly difficult. Many students that would be Paralympic-eligible may not even be identified in a Special Education or 504 database because they need no accommodations or modifications for them to access the general education curriculum.

Education continues to be a crucial component to the identification of students with disabilities that would be Paralympic-eligible. *Education must begin with school district staff, and not only APE teachers. *General physical education teachers should be at the top of the list, with classroom special education teachers, itinerant vision and physically challenged teachers included. *Methods to disperse information could include: District Staff development workshops, local and regional conferences, newsletters/webmail, Disability Awareness assemblies

*Community-based education opportunities: *School recess programs *“Disability awareness” kit *Disability awareness community fairs

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*Parent education: *Presentations at disability-specific meetings i.e. Spina bifida organization *Handout flyers at events; flyers to teachers to distribute at IEP meetings *“Voluntary mailing” list at events, sign up

* The education component should include Classification

*Classification is a formal process to “Level the playing field” *For example: International Classification for Athletics (IPC) * 10-13 Blind & Visually Impaired * 20 Intellectually impairments * 31-38 Wheelchair & Ambulatory * 40-48 Arm and Leg Amputees, unilateral & bilateral; Dwarfs * 51-54 Spinal Cord-related, quadriplegics and paraplegics *Several sports, including swimming, is done with a “functional classification system”

Structure of “Paralympic Pipeline”: *Grassroots: Access to local and national associations, and DSOs for support/competitive opportunities. *What to do when you find an athlete that has potential? *Same fundamentals as able-bodied counterparts (How do you learn to coach AB athletes?) *Access to competition: USA Track & Field “Reasonable Accommodations” allowing people with disabilities access to competition

www.lasvegasnevada.gov www.ccsdape.com

Links to find out what’s going on in your area: www.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics http://findaclub.usparalympics.org/ www.adaptivesportsusa.org www.disabledsportsusa.org/

Barbara A. Chambers Andrea Anzalone Clark County School District ([email protected]) Adapted Physical Education Jonathan Foster 702-799-0104 ([email protected]) [email protected] City of Las Vegas Adaptive Recreation 702-229-4903