Disability Cure

Sport played by person with some disability is disabled sports. This can be physical disability or mental disability. Some sports are adapted sports while some have been created specially for challenged people. There are many different types of sports for people with different type of disabilities. Since during early 1990s, many countries started including sports for disabled people in Olympics and other major games.

Sports for person with disability is mainly divided into three groups, the deaf, people with physical disability and people with mental disability. Sports for deaf mainly include athletics, badminton, basketball, cycling, football, judo, karate, etc. Sport for people with physical disability includes tennis, volleyball, archery, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair dance sport etc.

There are many organizations that are trying to get equality in disabled sports. Several organizations have developed plans with principles to promote equal opportunities. There are some Special Olympic games, which are meant for people with mental disability, whereas there are Paralympic games that are meant for people with physical and mental disabilities. Special Olympics also provide training as well as competition to people with mental disability in number of sports. These sports developed out of rehabilitation programs which then became recreational sport and competitive sport.

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