Canoeing and kayaking for people with disabilities

This is a comprehensive professional resource for including individuals with disabilities in canoeing and kayaking. "Canoeing and Kayaking to People with Disabilities" offers participation in the challenge, discovery, beauty, renewaland freedom that comes from exploring water trails. Written by the experts atthe American Canoe Association, this title presents best practices, tips and tricks garned from years of extensive research and in-the-field experience. The contributing authors outline specific instructional techniques and strategies for inviting, accommodating and teaching a wide range of individuals with disabilities paddling skills. The book also explains specialist equipment and the processes involved in making key equipment decisions. It's intended use is to support a wide variety of recreation, youth and outdoor professionals who provide canoe and kayaking experiences through parks, camps, outdoor and health organisations, to a growing number of individuals with disabilities. "The ACA Adapted Paddling" authors offer readers tested instructional techniques, strategies and equipment adaptations to insure that a wide variety of individuals with disabilities can be accommodated and enjoy successful canoeing and kayaking experiences. INDICE: Chapter 1. Introduction: Who Has a Disability?; Chapter 2. GeneralGuidelines; Chapter 3. Legal Requirements: Accessibility of Facilities and Programs; Chapter 4. Instructor Checklists; Chapter 5. Equipping the Paddler; Chapter 6. Disabilities and Their Implications for Paddling and Instruction; Chapter 7. Adaptation Principles; Chapter 8. Adaptations Based on Functional Impairments; Chapter 9. Rescues; Chapter 10. Transfers and Carries; Chapter 11. Paddling Trips.

• ISBN: 978-0-7360-8329-4
• Editorial: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 136
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés