A resource to help support families of children with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic with their mental and physical health.
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Resources and Publications
Featured
Ability Insights: Winter 2020 Issue
The CDPP's Sport and Exercise Team is excited to share their Winter 2020 Ability Insights newsletter. In this 4th issue of the family-focused newsletter you will find information on:...
Open Access MythBusting Paper: The Participation of People with Disabilities in the Workplace Across the Employment Cycle
In the paper led by Dr. Silvia Bonaccio of the University of Ottawa/Telfer School of Management and the CDPP Employment Team, evidence-based responses to 11 specific concerns that employers have...
Toolkits & Catalogs
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...
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...
Physical Activity, Active Living, and Sport Resource Catalogue
Online resources for Canadians living with disabilities
Knowledge Translation Bulletins
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
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...
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...
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...
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...