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Family Sport as a Positive Approach to Life: Concept, Reality and Experience



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Peter Kapustin

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DOI:10.17265/2332-7839/2015.03.006

Inclusion starts in the family, but families with disabled children often live with the experience to be handicapped. Therefore, in 1982, the Institute of Sport Science at the State University of Würzburg in Germany started the project Family Sport as a weekly event in cooperation with an organization founded by parents called “Lebenshilfe”. From 1985 on, vacation activities both in summer and winter have been organized as well. After nearly 30 years, 79 participating families out of three cities took the chance to report on their experiences and benefits which they gained in and with the project via a questionnaire. The project was carried out as a long-term pilot study (project leader: P. Kapustin) on the basis of an action research approach.

Family life with disabled children, inclusion, adaption, weekly workouts and vacation activities, experiences.