Sports

The Adaptive Climbing Group (ACG) is one of the leading organizations for adaptive climbing in the United States. It offers regular indoor and outdoor climbing programs for people with a wide range of disabilities in partnership with climbing gyms across the country. Its activities include community climbing sessions, youth programs, outdoor climbing trips and opportunities for first-time climbers. The organization also supports the growth of paraclimbing and advocates for more accessible and inclusive climbing opportunities.

Paradox Sports is one of North America's pioneering organizations for adaptive outdoor sports. It offers climbing programs for people with a wide range of disabilities, including indoor climbing, outdoor rock climbing, ice climbing and multi-day expeditions. In addition to recreational activities, the organization provides training for climbing gyms and guides while fostering a strong community where participants can share experiences, build confidence and support one another.

The UK Paraclimbing Collective is a volunteer-led organization dedicated to making climbing more accessible for people with physical, sensory and cognitive disabilities. It organizes inclusive climbing sessions across the United Kingdom, shares information on the accessibility of climbing gyms and provides a supportive network for both beginners and experienced climbers. Its goal is to make climbing more accessible and inclusive for people of all abilities.

United We Climb works with climbing gyms, industry partners and accessibility experts to make climbing more inclusive. The initiative provides practical guidance on improving accessibility, delivers training for climbing gym staff and shares resources and best practices for inclusive climbing programs. It serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in creating more accessible climbing facilities.

The Canadian Adaptive Climbing Society develops and delivers adaptive climbing programs in several regions across Canada. Its activities include supported indoor climbing sessions, outdoor climbing experiences, workshops and training for climbing gyms and instructors. The organization aims to help people with a wide range of disabilities participate in climbing safely, confidently and as independently as possible.

Paraclimbing Australia connects climbing gyms, coaches and people with disabilities across Australia. The initiative promotes regional climbing opportunities, supports newcomers to the sport and encourages knowledge sharing within the climbing community. Alongside competition information, it places a strong emphasis on making recreational and community climbing more accessible and inclusive.

The Global Climbing Initiative supports climbing projects around the world by partnering with local organizations to expand access to the sport. Its work includes funding programs, training opportunities and the provision of climbing equipment. A key focus is increasing participation among underrepresented groups, including people with disabilities, while promoting climbing as an inclusive community and recreational activity.

True North Climbing in Toronto offers adaptive climbing programs in partnership with the Canadian Adaptive Climbing Society. Designed for people with a wide range of disabilities, the program demonstrates how inclusive climbing opportunities can become a permanent part of a climbing gym's activities. It serves as a practical example of accessible climbing in action.

In the early 1980's, a group of individuals in Calgary, Alberta had a desire to play hockey. This group of people were electric wheelchair users and there weren't and still aren't that many decent athletic opportunities. The Calgary PowerHockey League endeavor to provide an adaptive hockey program for all persons who require the use of an electric wheelchair for daily mobility.

The federation develops and supports the sport of wheelchair basketball in all countries worldwide. The website hold information and links to national associations and regional wheelchair basketball teams around the world.

On the website of the National Beep Baseball Association, you find a lot of information on the history and rules of the games, as well as the latest results and league tables.

The institute provides horseback adventures in wild and scenic areas for people of all abilities. This program offers recreational horseback activities and related services to people with disabilities and their significant others.

This site informs on equine-assisted activities. PATH INTL. is a national non-profit organization that promotes the benefit of the horse for individuals with physical, emotional and learning disabilities. For individuals with disabilities, equine-assisted activities have been shown to improve muscle tone, balance, posture, coordination, motor development as well as emotional well-being.

The AXIS Dance Company is an innovative ensemble of performers with and without disabilities. Founded in 1987, the company is a non profit organisation. AXIS propagate a collaboration of dancers with and without disabilities. The mission is to teach dance and educate about collaboration and disability, to promote and support physically integrated dance locally, nationally and internationally.

Anjali Dance Company is a professional touring contemporary dance company that exists to realise and celebrate through dance the potential of people with learning disabilities. The company pursues its aims by creating and touring original dance works, developing professional training structures for its dancers and others and by running education and outreach programmes that employ and develop the skills of people with learning disabilities.

DanceAbility is a dance method founded in 1987 by Alito Alessi and Karen Nelson. DanceAbility uses improvisational dance to promote artistic expression and exploration between people with and without disabilities.

Amici Dance is a dance theatre company integrating able bodied and disabled artists and performers, based in London. AMICI gives workshop residencies, student placements, and performances throughout the year.

The Foundation for Community Dance is a professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance.

A dance company based in London. Key strands include Deaf & Dancing, with deaf young people, and Older & Dancing, which reaches many disabled older people.

Carousel is a learning disability led arts organisation. Founded in 1982 Carousel works to promote the active involvement of people with a learning disability in the arts, teaching new artistic skills and developing existing talents.

Corali is a performance company that creates and tours original performance work in London. It makes work in collaboration with performers, dancers and artists that have learning disabilities and those that do not. Corali has a core company of artists and it also runs education and outreach work.

A national nonprofit, organization established in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans to serve the war injured. In 2020, Disabled Sports USA and Adaptive Sports USA merged to become Move United, establishing the organization as the national leader in providing community-based sports programs for individuals with disabilities. They offer nationwide sports rehabilitation programs to anyone with a permanent disability. Activities include winter skiing, water sports, summer and winter competitions, fitness and special sports events.

DSNI is Northern Ireland's main disability sports organisation and is representative of the vast majority of Northern Ireland's disability sports club's and organisations. Established in 1997, to tackle the under representation of people with disabilities in sport, the organisation works to promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities to take part in and enjoy sport and physical activity at a level of their choice.

Established in 1998 as a national charity, previously known as the English Federation of Disability Sport, Activity Alliance is the leading voice for disabled people in sports and activities. They push for inclusion to be at the heart of all plans in sport and activity and disabled people to be prioritised, locally and nationally.

They are among the world's fastest growing sports events. More than 3,000 deaf athletes and officials from 75 nations participated in the 20th Summer Games in Melbourne, Australia, in January, 2005. Approximately 300 athletes from 20 nations are expected to qualify for the 16th Winter Deaflympics to be hosted by Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States in 2007.

The International Paralympic Committee is the international representative organisation of elite sports for athletes with disabilities. IPC organises, supervises and co-ordinates the Paralympic Games and other multi-disability competitions on elite sports level, of which the most important are world and regional championships. It is an international non-profit organisation formed and run by 160 National Paralympic Committees and 5 disability specific international sports federations.

NSCD began in 1970 as a one-time ski lesson for children with amputations for the Children's Hospital of Denver. Today, the NSCD is one of the largest outdoor therapeutic recreation agencies in the world. The mission of NSCD is to provide quality outdoor sports and therapeutic recreation programs that positively impact the lives of people with physical, cognitive, emotional, or behavioral challenges.

Special Olympics is an international organization dedicated to empowering individuals with mental retardation to become physically fit, productive and respected members of society through sports training and competition. Special Olympics offers children and adults with mental retardation year-round training and competition in 26 Olympic-type summer and winter sports. Special Olympics currently serves more than 1 million persons with mental retardation in more than 200 Programs in more than 150 countries.