The importance of sport and recreational activities for children with disabilities: investigating parent’s perception
Participation in recreational and sport activity promotes social wellbeing, as well as physical and mental health. Recreational and sport activities provide learning opportunities for children such as learn skills for teamwork, self-discipline, sportsmanship, leadership, and socialization. All chi...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/60625/ http://eprints.usm.my/60625/1/SIMON%20HOI%20THENG%20PHANG%20-%20e.pdf |
| Summary: | Participation in recreational and sport activity promotes social wellbeing,
as well as physical and mental health. Recreational and sport activities provide
learning opportunities for children such as learn skills for teamwork, self-discipline, sportsmanship, leadership, and socialization. All children would benefit from sport and recreational activities including children with disabilities. This is a study of parent's perception about participation in recreational and
sport activities towards children with disabilities. It is an investigation on the importance of
participation in recreational and sport activities for children with disabilities. 61 parents who have children with disabilities. All respondents completed the
modified and translated questionnaire. In this study, descriptive statistics (such as means
and frequencies) were used to explore trends in parent's perception of importance and
factors of supports and barriers for the participation in recreational and sport activities
towards children with disabilities.This study demonstrates that the majority of parents have good level of
understanding of recreational and sport activity. This study also examined that majority of
parents agreed recreational and sport activity is very important to children with disabilities.
Majority of respondents agreed the factor of supporting and barriers in the encouragement
of children with disabilities to participant in recreational and sport activities. The parents acknowledged the importance for children with disabilities to
participate activities in recreational and sport activities. They also provided several of supporting and barriers that influence children participation in sport and recreational
activities. |
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