Adaptive sports play an important role in the health, happiness and overall well-being of individuals with disabilities. Adaptive sports providers strive to provide safe and effective instruction and coaching for program participants.  Fielding a team of trained staff and volunteers, instructors and coaches, is key to the success of students and athletes.

​

The Bob Woodruff Foundation funded a study to examine how adaptive sports programs around the country prepare volunteers and staff, instructors and coaches to meet the needs of students and athletes with disabilities.

​

This project is being conducted by Northeast Passage at the University of New Hampshire, in collaboration with U.S. Paralympics and Disabled Sports USA.

 

May 2014: See the final study report here.