Visual and Disability Awareness through Sport Training

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Daisy Inclusive UK uses sport to tackle the social issue of disability discrimination, social exclusion and hate crime. By using reverse inclusion we help non-disabled young people to understand and support disabled young people, through adaptive sports we teach them valuable lessons about team work and introduce the concept that disabled people are capable of achieving great things. Through our courses we aim to teach people how to adapt sports for disabled and how to help disabled people on a day to day basis. Many of the students we address are aiming to teach sports in an educational field and have little to no experience with blind, partially sighted and disabled people, they have no concept of how to teach sports or adapt lessons to teach. Because of a lack of education around teaching the disabled many disabled people find themselves excluded in school from taking part in many activities because the school has no concept of how to adapt the activity. Social exclusion has an impact on self-esteem and can lead to non-disabled people having skewed views of the capabilities of the disabled which has an impact in later life.