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 with the CDPP and Special Olympics Canada. The Blueprint provides evidence-based strategies for building quality participation in sport programs specifically for children and youth with intellectual disabilities.
Click the images or the pdf files found at the bottom of the page for copies of Blueprint in English or French:
An Audit
Tool, in the form of an Excel
file 
Audit
Tool_CDPP SOC Blueprint.xlsx, is
available to help determine potential strategies
to consider implementing within a sport
program.
Part of the research evidence supporting the Blueprint is described in Knowledge Translation Bulletin #8: Fostering Quality Participation for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. A Researcher Guide to Knowledge Translation and Infographic outline the multi-step process for adapting the Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport and are available to help guide researchers through the process of tailoring the Blueprint to local contexts.
Click the images or the pdf files found at the bottom of the page for copies of the Guide or Infographic:
Additional resources that may be of interest include:
- A Blueprint for Building Quality Participation
in Sport for Children, Youth, and Adults with a
Disability click
here
- Two Quick Guides on Fostering Quality
Participation for Athletes with a Disability: A
Quick Guide for Program Leaders STEP 1 and STEP
2 click
here
- Video:
Quality Participation in Sport for Children with
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
click the YouTube image below
or click
here
