1-Who are they? Definition? Categories? /how many?
Athletes
with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities, including mobility
disabilities.
Amputee, mentally challenge, blind, dwarfism,
wheel chair, cerebral palsy
164 countries.
2-what challenges do they face? Personal /
social?
The hour of training, securing funding
3-when did the Paralympics start?
It started in UK 1948.
4-what have they achieved since the start of
the PO ? UAE athletes: since they started participating?
Recognition by the people as true athlete.
Training support.
They have been supported with equipment.
They got 359 medals.
Vocabulary:
Disability: lack of power or mental ability
Amputee: a person who has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg by amputation.
Cerebral palsy: a
form of paralysis
believed to
be caused
by a prenatal brain defect
or by brain injury during birth, most
marked in
certain motor areas
and characterized
by difficulty
in control of
the voluntary muscles.
Intellectual disability: is
a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual
functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and
practical skills.
Dwarfism: people who aren't able to hear
clearly or can't hear anything.
Multiple sclerosis: is a
chronic autoimmune disorder affecting movement and bodily functions. It is
caused by destruction of the myelin insulation covering nerve fibers in the
central nervous system.
Congenital disorder: A
large group of disorders arising during development that cause abnormality of
the human body.
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