Strategy matrix for fostering quality participation among persons with disabilities in community-based exercise programs...
Resources and Publications
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Volunteer Training and Management
Welcome to the module for Training and Managing Disability Sport Event Volunteers: Recommendations and Resources.
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Quality Participation on Playgrounds Resources
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Files: 
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation on Playgrounds for Children with Disabilities--Programmer Version.pdf, A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation on Playgrounds for Children with Disabilities - Programmer French Version-compressed.pdf, A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation on Playgrounds for Children with Disabilities - Caregiver Version.pdf, How You Can Foster Quality Participation in Play for Children with Disabilities on Playgrounds.pdf, What Makes a Playground Inclusive.pdf, What_makes_a_playground_inclusive-FR.pdf, 2023 Play Finds a Way - Final Research Report_FINAL-s.(accessible)pdf.pdf
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation on Playgrounds for Children with Disabilities--Programmer Version.pdf, A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation on Playgrounds for Children with Disabilities - Programmer French Version-compressed.pdf, A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation on Playgrounds for Children with Disabilities - Caregiver Version.pdf, How You Can Foster Quality Participation in Play for Children with Disabilities on Playgrounds.pdf, What Makes a Playground Inclusive.pdf, What_makes_a_playground_inclusive-FR.pdf, 2023 Play Finds a Way - Final Research Report_FINAL-s.(accessible)pdf.pdfToolkits & Catalogs
Disability and Physical Activity Program Evaluation Toolkit
Welcome to the Disability and Physical Activity Program Evaluation Toolkit!...
Tips and Tricks for Developing and Disseminating Physical Activity Information for Families of Children with Disabilities
Evidence-Informed Recommendations: Tips and Tricks for Developing and Disseminating Physical Activity Information for Families of Children with...
Disability and Exercise Training Resources for Health Care and Exercise Professionals
The suite of CDPP Disability and Exercise Training resources present six evidence-informed steps along with key considerations for health...
Files: 
Disability & Exercise Training - User Guide for Website.png, 1-Key Steps for Health Care and Exercise Professionals.pdf, 2-Disability and Exercise Training A 6-Step Guide.pdf, 3-Disability and Exercise Training A 6-Step Companion Guide.pdf, 4-Development of Disability and Exercise Training Resources.pdf, 5-Defining and Describing Disability for Exercise Providers.pdf
Disability & Exercise Training - User Guide for Website.png, 
1-Key Steps for Health Care and Exercise Professionals.pdf, 2-Disability and Exercise Training A 6-Step Guide.pdf, 3-Disability and Exercise Training A 6-Step Companion Guide.pdf, 4-Development of Disability and Exercise Training Resources.pdf, 5-Defining and Describing Disability for Exercise Providers.pdfStory-Based Practical Resource for Coaches and Coach Educators in Disability Sport
This creative nonfiction (i.e., an evidence-informed short story) was created as a learning tool for disability sport coaches in entry level and developmental coaching domains. This tool is...
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder was developed in partnership with...
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Intellectual Disabilities
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Intellectual Disabilities was developed in partnership...
Accessibility, Inclusion, and Quality Participation
A Quick Guide to Accessibility, Inclusion, and Quality Participation provides concise definitions of accessibility, inclusion, and quality...
Mobility Device Training Catalogue: Online Resources for Canadians Living with Disabilities
The Mobility Device Training Catalogue is a bilingual document that provides links to mobility device training tools (written instructions and videos), which can be used...
A Catalogue of Resources for Health and Recreation Practitioners
Supporting Physical Activity among Canadians with Physical Disabilities: Resources for...
Ability Toolkit
The Ability Toolkit: A Resource for Parents of Children and Youth with a Disability is a parent-centered resource aimed to help...
The Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children, Youth, and Adults with a Disability including Quality Participation Checklist Audit Tool
Files: Quality Participation Blueprint.pdf, Quality Participation Blueprint_French.pdf, CDPP Quality of Participation Evidence Summary.pdf, 
CDPP Quality Participation Blueprint Worksheet.xlsx, Quality Participation Quick Guide 1.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide1_French.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide 2.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide 2_French.pdf
Quality Participation Blueprint.pdf, Quality Participation Blueprint_French.pdf, CDPP Quality of Participation Evidence Summary.pdf, CDPP Quality Participation Blueprint Worksheet.xlsx, Quality Participation Quick Guide 1.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide1_French.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide 2.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide 2_French.pdfEvidence-Based Strategies for Building Quality Participation in Sports for Children, Youth, and Adults with Disability
This report was developed as a supplement to The Blueprint for...
Physical Activity, Active Living, and Sport Resource Catalogue
Online resources for Canadians living with disabilities
Knowledge Translation Bulletins
Developing evidence informed strategies to foster quality participation on playgrounds
This KT Bulletin summarizes the rigorous, multi-step process that Dr. Arbour-Nicitopoulos and her research team undertook to develop 25 evidence informed...
Working with Athletes with a Disability: Through a Coach's Lens
This knowledge translation bulletin summarizes a 2018 report examining coaches’ perceptions and experiences working with athletes with a disability. ...
Development of a Story-Based Practical Resource for Coaches and Coach Educators in Disability Sport
This knowledge translation bulletin summarizes research that uses a creative nonfiction to model and teach behaviours that foster quality sport experiences for athletes with disabilities to...
Quality Participation in Military Veterans with an Acquired Physical Disability
This knowledge translation bulletin summarizes published research that examines the experiential elements of quality participation and pathways through which military veterans with an acquired...
Evidence-informed recommendations for designing inclusive playgrounds to enable play participation for children with disabilities
This knowledge translation bulletin summarizes a scoping review that analyzed existing literature on inclusive playground design. Thirteen evidence-informed recommendations and one promising...
Fostering Quality Participation for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
This knowledge translation bulletin identifies that the building blocks of quality experiences are relevant to children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It outlines a...
Physical Activity Among Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries Who Walk
This knowledge translation bulletin summarizes published research that examines physical activity among individuals living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) who have some ability to walk, or...
Strategies to Support Teachers Who Deliver Inclusive Physical Education Classes
This knowledge translation bulletin outlines strategies to best support teachers working in inclusive physical education so that they can acquire the tools they need to provide a richer and more...
Recreational Leisure Activities: Understanding the benefits of participating in Adaptive Leisure Activities
This knowledge translation bulletin shares the findings from a qualitative study which assessed the impact of adapted recreational activities on the wellbeing, health, and social participation of...
Young Adults with Chronic Conditions and Disabilities Face Workplace Barriers
This knowledge translation bulletin looks at research that suggests young workers with arthritis have more difficulty accessing workplace supports than older workers with the same condition....
Seven Themes of Successful Physical Activity Programs for People with Disabilities
This knowledge translation bulletin identifies the seven themes of all successul recreational and exercise programs designed for people with disabilities.
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Sport & Exercise Participation and Disability: A Blueprint for Change
This document outlines the factors that influence sport and exercise participation for people with physical disabilities.
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Rethinking the meaning of "Participation" for people with disabilities
The purpose of this document is to encourage community programmers, rehabilitation specialists, policy makers and researchers to better understand the nature of participation by people with...
More Resources and Publications
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Disability and Physical Activity Program Evaluation Toolkit
Welcome to the Disability and Physical Activity Program Evaluation Toolkit!...
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Tips and Tricks for Developing and Disseminating Physical Activity Information for Families of Children with Disabilities
Evidence-Informed Recommendations: Tips and Tricks for Developing and Disseminating Physical Activity Information for Families of Children with...
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Disability and Exercise Training Resources for Health Care and Exercise Professionals
The suite of CDPP Disability and Exercise Training resources present six evidence-informed steps along with key considerations for health...
Files: Disability & Exercise Training - User Guide for Website.png, 1-Key Steps for Health Care and Exercise Professionals.pdf, 2-Disability and Exercise Training A 6-Step Guide.pdf, 3-Disability and Exercise Training A 6-Step Companion Guide.pdf, 4-Development of Disability and Exercise Training Resources.pdf, 5-Defining and Describing Disability for Exercise Providers.pdf -
Story-Based Practical Resource for Coaches and Coach Educators in Disability Sport
This creative nonfiction (i.e., an evidence-informed short story) was created as a learning tool for disability sport coaches in entry level and developmental coaching domains. This tool is...
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A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder was developed in partnership with...
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A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Intellectual Disabilities
A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children and Youth with Intellectual Disabilities was developed in partnership...
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Accessibility, Inclusion, and Quality Participation
A Quick Guide to Accessibility, Inclusion, and Quality Participation provides concise definitions of accessibility, inclusion, and quality...
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The Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children, Youth, and Adults with a Disability including Quality Participation Checklist Audit Tool
Files: Quality Participation Blueprint.pdf, Quality Participation Blueprint_French.pdf, CDPP Quality of Participation Evidence Summary.pdf, CDPP Quality Participation Blueprint Worksheet.xlsx, Quality Participation Quick Guide 1.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide1_French.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide 2.pdf, Quality Participation Quick Guide 2_French.pdf -
Mobility Device Training Catalogue: Online Resources for Canadians Living with Disabilities
The Mobility Device Training Catalogue is a bilingual document that provides links to mobility device training tools (written instructions and videos), which can be used...
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Ability Insights: Spring/Summer 2019 Issue
The CDPP’s Sport & Exercise Team is excited to share their 3rd issue of Ability Insights, a family-focused newsletter. In this issue you will find information on the Special Olympics...
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A Catalogue of Resources for Health and Recreation Practitioners
Supporting Physical Activity among Canadians with Physical Disabilities: Resources for...
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Ability Toolkit
The Ability Toolkit: A Resource for Parents of Children and Youth with a Disability is a parent-centered resource aimed to help...
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CDPP Sport & Exercise Team's Family-Focused Newsletter – Fall 2018 Issue
The CDPP's Family-Focused Sport and Exercise Team is excited to share the second issue of their newsletter, now named ...
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CDPP Sport & Exercise Team's Family-Focused Newsletter – Spring 2018 Issue
This seasonal newsletter is one way the CDPP Family-Focused Sport and Exercise Team will connect regularly with kids with disabilities and their families, along with community organizations and...
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Evidence-Based Strategies for Building Quality Participation in Sports for Children, Youth, and Adults with Disability
This report was developed as a supplement to The Blueprint for...
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Key components for developing successful physical activity interventions for people with physical disability
Understanding the key ingredients of what makes an intervention successful is important for developing effective physical activity strategies for people with physical disability. In this meta-...
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National approaches to promote sports and physical activity in adults with disabilities: Examples from the Netherlands and Canada
This open access article describes how the Dutch and Canadian governments promote high performance sports, recreational sports, and physical activity among adults with disabilities on a...
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Developing physical activity guidelines for people with spinal cord injury
Research informing people with spinal cord injury on how much exercise to do and how often was conducted by Dr. Jan van der Scheer at the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport as part of his...
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Synthesis of qualitative research on participant’s perceptions of physical activity-enhancing interventions for people with physical disabilities
This paper is a synthesis of 10 research papers that explored participants’ experiences and perceptions of PA-enhancing interventions for adults with physical impairments resulting in...
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What Constitutes 'Quality' Participation?
...CDPP’s focus is on improving not just the number of people with disabilities participating, but also the quality of participation. It is important that we have a clear -
A blueprint for addressing barriers to physical activity participation for people with disabilities in the recreation and health care sectors
Purpose: Dozens of published papers cite factors related to leisure time physical activity (LTPA) participation among...
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We need data on physical activity among people with disabilities
The following article, written by Kathleen Martin Ginis, was published in the Hamilton Spectator (April 5, 2016) and highlights the importance of having data on phyiscal activity participation...
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Physical Activity, Active Living, and Sport Resource Catalogue
Online resources for Canadians living with disabilities
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What factors influence adult wheelchair users' participation in social and community activities?
Purpose: To systematically identify factors presented in existing literature that are associated with adult wheelchair users' (WCUs) participation in social and community activities.
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What rehabilitation interventions improve social participation after stroke?
Purpose: To review the existing evidence of randomized controlled trials (RTCs) to determine whether rehabilitation interventions have a beneficial effect on social participation after stroke.
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What is the recent published research about mobility scooters?
Purpose: To identify and categorize recent published research about mobility scooters in both white (peer-reviewed journals) and grey literature (outside of academic publishing channels such as...