Get Involved: Links to Disability Sports Organizations

The mission of the Disability Swimming Committee is the full inclusion of swimmers with a disability in USA Swimming programs

The following organizations offer disability-specific swimming competitions. In some cases, the organizations also offer athlete development programs such as clubs/swimming practices, camps, and clinics. The international organizations conduct quadrennial multi-sports competitions analogous to the Olympic Games: (a) the International Parlympic Committee conducts Paralympic Games in the same years as Olympic Games; (b) CISS conducts the Deaflympics in the years following the Olympic Games; and (c) Special Olympics International conducts the World Special Olympics Games in the years preceding the Olympic Games.

International Governing Bodies

• International Paralympic Committee (http://www.paralympic.org) • Deaflympics/CISS (http://www.deaflympics.com) • Special Olympics International (http://www.specialolympics.org)

USA Governing Bodies

• U.S. Paralympics (http://usparalympics.org) • U.S. Deaf Swimming (http://www.unitedstatesdeafswimming.org/) • Special Olympics (http://www.specialolympics.org)

USA Disability Sport Organizations

• Blaze Sports – physical disabilities and vision loss (http://www.blazesports.org/) • Disabled Sports USA – amputation/wounded war veterans • (http://www.dsusa.org/) • Dwarf Athletic Association of America – short stature (http://www.daaa.org/) • Special Olympics – intellectual disabilities (http://www.specialolympics.org) • U.S. Association of Blind Athletes – blind/vision loss (http://www.usaba.org/) • U.S. Deaf Swimming – deaf and hard of hearing (http://www.unitedstatesdeafswimming.org/) • Wheelchair Sports USA – lower limb impairments (http://www.wsusa.org/)

International Sport Organizations

• Cerebral Palsy International Sport and Recreation Association (http://www.cpisra.org/) • Down Syndrome International Swimming Organization (http://www.dsiso.org/) • International Blind Sports Federation (http://www.ibsa.es/) • International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (CISS) (http://www.ciss.org/) • International Sports Federation for People with an Intellectual Disability (http://www.inas-fid.org/) • International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (http://www.iwasf.com/)