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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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.
For a...
A report detailing the process and outcomes of a stakeholder workshop to establish recommendations for the development and dissemination of physical activity...
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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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...
Supporting Physical Activity among Canadians with Physical Disabilities: Resources for...
The Ability Toolkit: A Resource for Parents of Children and Youth with a Disability is a parent-centered resource aimed to help...
This report was developed as a supplement to The Blueprint for...
Online resources for Canadians living with disabilities
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...
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...
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...
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....
This knowledge translation bulletin identifies the seven themes of all successul recreational and exercise programs designed for people with disabilities.
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This document outlines the factors that influence sport and exercise participation for people with physical disabilities.
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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...
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...
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...
Supporting Physical Activity among Canadians with Physical Disabilities: Resources for...
The Ability Toolkit: A Resource for Parents of Children and Youth with a Disability is a parent-centered resource aimed to help...
The CDPP's Family-Focused Sport and Exercise Team is excited to share the second issue of their newsletter, now named ...
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...
This report was developed as a supplement to The Blueprint for...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
Purpose: Dozens of published papers cite factors related to leisure time physical activity (LTPA) participation among...
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...
Online resources for Canadians living with disabilities
Purpose: To systematically identify factors presented in existing literature that are associated with adult wheelchair users' (WCUs) participation in social and community activities.
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.
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...