Factors Militating Against Disabled Children’s Involvement in Physical Activities and Sports

Abstract

The paper reviewed factors militating against disabled children’s involvement in physical activities and sports. The selection included studies that focused on children with physical disability, para sports, exercise and general exercising activities from 2015-2023. Search words such as, barriers, inhibitors, limitations, were included. Exclusion criteria were studies focusing merely on people with cognitive impairments, hearing or visual impairments, organ transplant as well as those focusing on people with no related physical disability. The studies collected were limited to the following search engines: Googlescholar, Medline and Researchgate. Empirical studies reviewed indicated that exercise and sports are vital tools for the wellbeing of people with physical disabilities. Factors including dependency, poor transportation, parental control and accessibility to sport facilities were hinderances to effective participation of children with physical disabilities in exercise and sports. The authors established the fact that based on the review; the aforementioned barriers militate against disabled persons’ participation in exercise and sports. However, all hands should be put on deck to ameliorate the aforesaid challenges militating against disabled children involvement in exercise and sports.