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#SMILE Good Practices Toolkit
Toolkit reflects multiple sports organizations’ need of concrete, practically tested activities that can be implemented with people with intellectual disabilities.
Aims of the tool
Its overall aim is to ensure #BeActive and #HealthyLifestyle4All values are applied, to empower further development of inclusive sports in the European Union.
Description of the tool
People with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health challenges are still subjected to wide discrimination and the impossibility of proper inclusion in society. Sports is one of the most powerful tools that can support the inclusion process, and in a gentle way present an opportunity for this population to feel accepted and part of a group. Sports, Motivation, Inclusion, Leadership, Engagement – or simply #SMILE – is a project aiming to analyse the link between sports and inclusion in an innovative way, by ensuring international participation in sport activities of persons with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health challenges. During the implementation of the national and international #SMILE activities, research teams used practical testing to document and highlight concrete sports activities that are suitable for inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities and that can also be replicated in different environments. Any needed adaptation from the actual sport applied during the national and international activities has been reported as well, together with tips and tricks for sports experts on what to keep in mind. A #SMILE edition is available for practical application in any sports organization in Europe and the world. The Good Practices #SMILE Toolkit reflects multiple sports organizations’ need of concrete, practically tested activities that can be implemented with people with intellectual disabilities. This handbook is available in an online version (.pdf), available at the project webpage in the English language, and it is also distributed to interested partners on local and international levels. This issue is one of the first editions in the sports sector, based on practical information on inclusion through sports, focused on working with people with intellectual disabilities. Its overall aim is to ensure #BeActive and #HealthyLifestyle4All values are applied, to empower further development of inclusive sports in the European Union. Find out more at our project website: www.inclusivesport.org
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/3827
This tool is for
Sport coaches, youth workers working with people with intellectual disabilities
and addresses
Disability
Duration:
Toolkit available for download at: https://inclusivesport.org/2023/06/13/good-practices-smile-toolkit/
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Bulgarian Sports Development Association
in the context of
SMILE project
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Yoanna Dochevska (on 26 January 2024)
and last modified
10 October 2023
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