16 Mar
Sports Organizations
The following are sports organizations that include people with intellectual and/or physical disabilities.
General Organizations (multisport)
- Special Olympics
- For people with intellectual disabilities
- International Paralympic Committee
- For people with physical disabilities
- Go to the Membership page to find local Paralympic organizations
- For people with intellectual disabilities. The same eligibility criteria as Special Olympics but athletes are not divisioned (banded) so that there is only one winner per event instead of multiple winners from divisions/heats of similar ability
- World Association of Persons with disAbilities
- An umbrella organization for all people with disabilities
- Their links to sports organizations
Organizations Based on a Physical Impairment
- International Blind Sports Federation
- For people with visual impairments
- Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association
- For people with Cerebral Palsy
- Deaflympics
- For people with hearing impairments
- Wheelchair Sports Worldwide
- For people that use wheelchairs
- The Wheelchair Sports Worldwide has over 70 member nations but the website does not have links to their websites. Some of the countries where readers of this site might live are Canada United States Great Britain
Organizations Based on a Sport
- Challenger Baseball
- A division of Little League baseball for people aged 5-18 or the completion of high school with intellectual and physical disabilities
- International Wheelchair Basketball Federation
- Basketball for people that use a wheelchair
- World Organization Volleyball for the Disabled
- For people with physical disabilities
Organizations Based in a Country
- Australian Athletes with a disability
- Australia: This organization combines the Australian Sports Organisation for the Disabled, the Cerebral Palsy Sports and Recreation Federation of Australia, and Wheelchair Sports Australia
- Finnish Association of Sports for the Disabled
- Finland: for people with cerebral palsy or spinal cord injuries and for anyone with a locomotor disability or a disease affecting their ability to move
- Singapore Disability Sports Council
- Singapore: for people with intellectual and physical disabilities
- The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
- United States: at the University of Illinois, it is not a sports organization but rather a resource center doing research and promoting sports programs
- National Sports Center for the Disabled
- United States: in Colorado