In their new open access paper, Drs. Sandra Fisher and Catherine Connelly demonstrate how to empirically estimate the financial implications of hiring employees with disabilities.
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Resources and Publications
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Getting the message across: A collaborative approach to establishing recommendations for the development and dissemination of physical activity information targeting parents of children with disabilities
A report detailing the process and outcomes of a stakeholder workshop to establish recommendations for the development and dissemination of physical activity...
COVID-19: Supporting the physical and mental health of families of children with disabilities
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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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
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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The Blueprint for Building Quality Participation in Sport for Children, Youth, and Adults with a Disability including Quality Participation Checklist Audit Tool
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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...