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Recreation and Leisure
Contains information about creative and innovative recreation and leisure programs and opportunities throughout the country.
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Managed by: Kathy Scholl of University of Northern Iowa
Product Categories
Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online) (18 Products)
Electronic Media (19 Products)
Organizations, Programs, and Projects (24 Products)
Other (6 Products)
Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)
 | Achieving a Beneficial Fitness: A Program and a Philosophy in Mental Retardation
This short book explains why physical fitness is important for people with an intellectual disability. It also suggests a health and fitness program for those who may be starting to work towards their first fitness goals.
| | Community Recreation and People with Disabilities: Strategies for Inclusion (2nd edition)
A book showing the best ideas to design, implement, and evaluate inclusive recreation programs. | | Cooking by Color: Recipes for Independence
This is a cookbook made so it is easy for everyone to use. It uses colors and words to help people find the information they need, and learn to be good cooks. | | Cooking Made Easy
Cooking Made Easy is a cookbook for people with developmental disabilities who can read. Recipes are broken down into detailed, easy to understand steps. Every recipe is coded from 1-5 according to level of difficulty. | | Different Speeds and Different Needs: How to Teach Sports to Every Kid
A book for K-12 physical educators and coaches. It shows how to establish and sustain inclusive sports programs that are fun and welcoming for students with a wide range of special needs. It has
practical guidance and examples. | | Enjoying Sport and Exercise (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain ways to exercise and stay fit. It is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. | | Impact: Feature Issue on Social Inclusion Through Recreation for Persons with Disabilities
This issue of the Impact newsletter is about ways to increase the social inclusion of people with disabilities through recreation. | | Inclusion: Strategies including people with disabilities in parks and recreation opportunities
A book with information and ideas to help community recreation agencies do a better job of including people with disabilities in all programs. Each chapter is set up so it could easily be used in staff training sessions. | | Inclusive Games: Movement Fun for Everyone by Susan L. Kasser
Over 50 games and activities that encourage active participation by young people with differing abilities. | | Inclusive Recreation with Web Resource: Programs and Services for Diverse Populations with Web ancillaries
This book is written for people studying to work in leisure and recreation for the inclusion of people with disabilities. | | Inclusive Recreation: Programs and services for diverse populations
A textbook for undergraduate students pursuing careers in recreation, parks, leisure, or tourism. It helps students learn to provide programs for diverse populations, including people with disabilities. | | Kennedy Center Tipsheets on Cultural Access
Tipsheets on the best practices for making theaters, museums and other cultural facilities and programs accessible to patrons and visitors with disabilities. | | Leisure Works
This program shows people with disabities how to find new leisure activities, and learn new skills. It also helps DSPs. | | Leisure, Integration and Community
This book is for recreation and leisure therapists and other professionals about supporting community change for people with disabilities to have full leisure lifestyles and be participating members of their communities. | | Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults
This book is written by a woman who has Asperger's Syndrome. In the book she gives ideas on how to handle daily life activities. | | Making School and Community Recreation Fun for Everyone: Places and Ways to Integrate by M. Sherril Moon
This book can help community members to support people with disabilities in community and school recreation programs. | | Removing Barriers to Health Clubs and Fitness Facilities
This book explains what health clubs can do to become more accessible to people with disabilities. It mostly focuses on the needs of people with physical disabilities. | | Wings to Fly: Bringing Theatre Arts to Students with Special Needs
Wings to Fly is a comprehensive nuts and bolts handbook for special education and drama teachers on bringing theatre arts to students with special needs. |
Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)
| Accessible Gardening
This on-line newsletter is about gardening for people with disabilities. | | Becoming Independent
This film is about 3 young adults with disabilities, and shows them at work and home. It explains their lives, hopes and dreams for the future. | | Discover Camp!
A website for families preparing to select a summer camp for their child with disabilities. | | District of Columbia activities web-site
To help integrate Washington, DC's residents with disabilities into the city's cultural life, MRDDA's website presents activities, events, and destinations as individually designed "invitations" along with access information. | | Good Access is Good Business
On this DVD, several business owners who operate for-profit businesses on public lands discuss the financial benefits of providing physical and program access to people with disabilities.
| | Hannah
A short film that follows Hannah a young dancer and athlete who has Down syndrome. | | I Belong Out There
The real life examples in the video and the 16 pages of reproducible printed resources will encourage and motivate staff and people with disabilities to participate and succeed in community activities. An award winning entertaining resource. | | Impact: Feature Issue on Social Inclusion Through Recreation for Persons with Disabilities
This issue of the Impact newsletter is about ways to increase the social inclusion of people with disabilities through recreation. | | Inclusive Fitness Coalition
This website is a coalition of agencies. The agencies are committed to good health and self advocacy in the lives of people with disabilities. | | Jacob's Turn
A short documentary about a boy with Down syndrome and his love of baseball.
| | Kiss My Wheels
Kiss My Wheels follows the Zia Hot Shots. The Hot Shots are a nationally ranked junior wheelchair basketball team. This video shows a season of training and tournament competition. | | LifePages.org
A web site with information about recreation and leisure activities, services, advocacy, and other useful things to persons with disabilities who live in Minnesota. | | Moviesforfree.org
A person with a disability can get a movie for free from this website. | | New Directions for People with Disabilities, Inc
This agency offers vacations for people with disabilities. It is located in Santa Barbara, California. | | North Carolina Recreation Resource Guide
This webpage lists many recreation opportunities for people who live in North Carolina. | | Not on the Sidelines: Living and Playing with a Disability
This video is about four ordinary people whose lives were suddenly changed by accident, injury or illness when they were teens or young adults. | | Right to Risk: A 15 Day Journey Through Arizona's Grand Canyon
A movie that tells the story of eight, very brave people with disabilities. They went on a 15-day, 225-mile whitewater rafting adventure through the Grand Canyon. | | The Inclusive Rec Resource Ctr: Helping All People Play Wherever They Choose
This CD is a webinar about recreation. | | Web Calendar of Disability Related Events
Web Calendar of Disability Related Events: Online Events, International Events, National Events and Events in Illinois. Free publishing for any event that is relevant to a disabled community and disabled community research. |
Organizations, Programs, and Projects
| Anjali Dance Company
A dance company that seeks to change global thinking about who can dance. It is based in the United Kingdom. All of Anjali's dancers have learning/intellectual disabilities. | | Bradford Woods
An outdoor recreation center with a special interest in the inclusion of people with disabilities in outdoor activities. | | Camp Friendship
Resident camp sessions offered summer and winter holiday. Day/weekend options also available. Designed for persons w/developmental, physical or multiple disabilities, special medical needs, Down Syndrome, autism, or other conditions. ACA accredited. | | Camp New Hope
Camp New Hope is operated by Friendship Ventures and offers traditional summer resident camp sessions for children and adults with disabilties. | | Community Education Network on Disability
A network of community education programs serving adults with disabilities in Minnesota. | | EXPAND (Exciting Programs Adventures and New Dimensions) Program
This program makes leisure opportunities happen for persons with disabilities. It is part of Boulder, Colorado's city Parks and Recreation Department | | GATEWAY to Adventure
An outdoor adventure program offering training in outdoor skills and trips to many exciting places. | | Inclusive Fitness Coalition
This website is a coalition of agencies. The agencies are committed to good health and self advocacy in the lives of people with disabilities. | | Leisure Works
This program shows people with disabities how to find new leisure activities, and learn new skills. It also helps DSPs. | | Moviesforfree.org
A person with a disability can get a movie for free from this website. | | National Alliance for Accessible Golf/Project GAIN
The purpose of The National Alliance for Accessible Golf is to increase participation of people with disabilities in the game of golf. | | National Center on Accessibility
A national center promoting access to recreation activities for persons with disabilities. | | National Institute on Recreation Inclusion (NIRI)
NIRI (National Institute on Recreation Inclusion) was developed to provide recreation specialists with the tools to design, implement, and evaluate their recreation programs to include all patrons, with and without disabilities. | | National Sports Center for the Disabled
The National Sports Center for the Disabled is a therapeutic recreational program based in Colorado. | | New Directions for People with Disabilities, Inc
This agency offers vacations for people with disabilities. It is located in Santa Barbara, California. | | New York State Inclusive Recreation Resource Center
A university center working to make recreation inclusive of all people. It helps people with disabilities find leisure activities, and agencies to make their programs accessible to everyone. It is located and works mostly in the state of New York. | | Next Chapter Book Clubs
These are book clubs that include everyone, even people not able to read. | | Search Beyond Adventures
Supervised vacation trips for people with disabilities. | | Sensory Friendly Films program
A program where AMC movie theaters make their environment more accepting and comfortable for people with autism and other disabilities. | | The Buddy Bike
This bike can be ridden by two people. One person can provide support to the other. | | The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
A national clearinghouse on physical activity for persons with disabilities | | Together We Play: Creating inclusion for kids with disabilities
An initiative in the Cedar Valley region of Iowa that encourages and supports community recreation programs in including children and youth with disabilities in all recreation programs. | | Trips, Inc., Special Adventures
Trips, Inc., provides travel opportunities to people of various abilities in a safe, respectful and fun atmosphere. All of our special adventures seek to create an environment that promotes personal and emotional growth, friendship and learning. | | Youth Arc
An organization led by youth, with and without developmental disabilities, participating in social and recreational activities together. Through the Youth Arc participants learn to appreciate each others strengths and to work together as a team.
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Other
| Accessible Journeys
Since 1985, our only job has been designing custom, wheelchair accessible vacations and escorting groups on accessible holidays exclusively for slow walkers, wheelchair travelers, their families and their friends.
| | Adaptive Adventures
Adaptive Adventure mission is to increase awareness and participation in adaptive sports and recreation throughout the world. | | Disability Travel and Recreation Resources
Vacation and travel planning with links to other sites. | | Search Beyond Adventures
Supervised vacation trips for people with disabilities. | | The Inclusive Rec Resource Ctr: Helping All People Play Wherever They Choose
This CD is a webinar about recreation. | | Trips, Inc., Special Adventures
Trips, Inc., provides travel opportunities to people of various abilities in a safe, respectful and fun atmosphere. All of our special adventures seek to create an environment that promotes personal and emotional growth, friendship and learning. |
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