Children and youth with impairments in social skills and/or cognition face many barriers to
community participation specifically physical activity (PA)(eg, limited staff training). Inclusive …

The importance of play for children's development and wellbeing has been well established.
However, disabled children and their families frequently find accessing play sites …

Purpose Integrating children with and without disabilities in recreation programs is assumed
to promote inclusion. How social inclusion is facilitated in recreation settings, however, is not …

Purpose: This article describes how service providers use a set of practical strategies to
create an inclusive leisure space in Spiral Garden, an arts-mediated outdoor summer day …

Purpose Inclusive recreation programs can have individual and community impacts for
children with and without disabilities. However, studies that explore the impact of such …

The lack of direct support to participants with disabilities in inclusive recreation has been
identified as a primary barrier. Recent findings from a search for best practices in inclusive …

This multi-method qualitative study examined the culture, intentional design, and features of
a 30-year inclusive arts-mediated summer program called Spiral Garden. The study involved …

Aims Perspectives of children with and without disabilities on social inclusion are seldom
sought in the childhood disability literature, impeding the ability to provide inclusive …

This paper critically considers the Quebec Declaration's (2008) statement that leisure can be
a powerful tool for developing social capital and improving communities in the context of …

Adults with disabilities experience a lack of opportunity to participate in recreation and
leisure (R& L) activities due to issues such as limited program availability. Overnight …