Exam 10: Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion

Media coverage of the Paralympics has been uneven in most countries around the world.In the case of the 2012 Paralympics in London, which of the following countries provided no live coverage and little highlights coverage?

The history of disability is a series of stories about how people in various cultures have given meaning to physical and intellectual "difference." "Disability" comes to exist when people with certain differences are defined as

Sport participation patterns among people with disabilities are influenced by the fact that people with a disability

Older people tend to prefer sports in which they can focus on

U.S.Education Secretary Arne Duncan issued a letter in 2013 informing school officials that they were expected to provide equal sport participation opportunities for students with a disability. The primary response he received was

The term "handicapped" refers to

The decisions to ban and then reinstate eligibility in the Oscar Pistorius case raises questions about the

Given the current ableist ideology in North America, most social worlds are organized in ways that lead older people and people with a disability to

Which of the following would be out of place in the Empire of the Normal?

Because of the connotations that come with the labels of "able-bodied" and "disabled," many athletes in the Paralympic Games

People in the baby boom generation in the United States are

When people share a particular disability and want to play sports, they are most likely to