Adaptive Adventures
Adaptive Adventures is now in its 12th year of creating life-changing opportunities for people with physical disabilities. Adaptive Adventures opens the door to hope and allows people to realize their dreams. Program participants enjoy fresh air, rushing water, and abundant sunshine as they glide down ski slopes, cut through the water in a kayak or wakeboard, or bike through the Rocky Mountains and along the shores of Lake Michigan.
Website: http://adaptiveadventures.org
Adaptive Freedom Foundation
Adaptive Freedom Foundation is dedicated to offering open water experiences for people with disabilities including those that are excluded from participation. Adaptive Freedom Foundation adapts oceanic activity promoting accessibility and inclusion.
Website: https://www.adaptivefreedomfoundation.org/about
Adaptive Sport and Recreation Association
Provides adaptive sports programs year-round. San Diego Adaptive Sports Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life for children and adults with physical disabilities through sports and recreation.
Web: adaptivesportsandrec.org
Adaptive Sport Center
The Adaptive Sports Center enhances the quality of life of people with disabilities through exceptional outdoor adventure activities. The successful programs the ASC provides are inclusive to families and friends, empower our participants in their daily lives and have a positive enduring effect on self-efficacy, health, independence and overall well-being.
Website: http://adaptivesports.org
Ainsley’s Angels of America
Ainsley’s Angels of America aims to build awareness about America’s special needs community through inclusion in all aspects of life. Serving as advocates to providing education and participating as active members in local communities, the organization believes that everyone deserves to be included.
Website: https://ainsleysangels.org
Angel City Sports
Angel City Sports is leading the Paralympic movement in Southern California, creating sports opportunities for anyone with a physical disability.
Website: http://angelcitysports.org
Barnes Tennis Center
Barnes Tennis Center has an active Wheelchair Program for adults and juniors of all levels. This Center offers a tennis program with friendly instructors who are happy to work with disabled beginners, and intermediate or advanced players.
Website: https://www.barnestenniscenter.com/wheelchair-programs
Best Day Foundation
Best Day Foundation enables children and young adults with special needs to build confidence and self-esteem through adventure activities which stretch their limits, expand their true potential, reinforce their achievement, & connect them with diverse populations in their community.
Website: http://www.bestdayfoundation.org/about/
BlazeSports America
Blazesports is a nonprofit organization that advances the lives of youth and adults with physical disability through sports and healthy lifestyles. BlazeSports provides sports training, competitions, summer camps and other sports and recreational opportunities for youth and adults with spinal cord injury, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, muscular dystrophy, amputation, visual impairment or blindness, as well as other physical disabilities.
Website: http://www.blazesports.org
Boundless Playgrounds
Boundless Playgrounds, Inc. is the nation’s leading nonprofit developer of truly inclusive playgrounds where children – and adults – of all abilities can play together in a fun and welcoming environment.
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Box Wheelchairs
All BOX Wheelchairs are custom fit and made to order, fitted with only the best best parts and components. Mike’s heart and soul goes into each one. He is not alone in this venture as he finds infinite support from his family. Success is defined with team work, love, and to a person’s concerns and challenges and then overcoming them. Most of all what makes BOX Wheelchairs different from the rest is quality, reliability, and comfort at an affordable price. You don’t have to settle as there is no such thing as a standard BOX Wheelchair. Box makes a Daily wheelchair along with sport, all terrain and WCMX chairs.
Website: http://boxwheelchairs.com
Casa Colina Outdoor Adventures
Casa Colina’s Therapeutic Recreation and Outdoor Adventures, a program that focuses on empowering people with disabilities by creating opportunities through challenging and exciting activities. By focusing on abilities, not disabilities, the program enables its members to experience success both physically and emotionally.
Website: http://www.casacolina.org/Community-Services/Outdoor-Adventures.aspx
Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association
CPISRA is the leading international sports organisation governing and promoting sport and recreation for cerebral palsy and related neurological conditions.
Website: https://cpisra.org/about
Challenge Air
Challenge Air for Kids and Friends, a not-for-profit organization, offers motivational, inspirational and life-changing experiences to physically challenged children and youth through aviation.
Website: www.challengeair.com
Challenged Athlete Association
A unique organization that recognizes the athletic greatness inherent in all people with physical challenges and supports their athletic endeavors by providing grants for training, competition and equipment needs.
Website: www.challengedathletes.org
Challenge Aspen
Challenge Aspen is dedicated to impacting lives by presenting meaningful recreational, cultural and educational experiences to individuals faced with cognitive or physical challenges. The aim of Challenge Aspen is to carefully orchestrate life changing adventures, giving participants the courage to learn something new, trust their own abilities and carry that ideal forward, reaching toward goals in other areas of their lives.
Website: www.challengeaspen.org
Challenge Center
The Challenge Center is committed to providing skilled physical therapy and specialized fitness and wellness programs to rehabilitate realize the highest level of independence and improve the quality of like for children, adults and seniors with severe physical disabilities, as well as their families and caregivers.
Phone: 619-667-8644
Website: http://www.challengecenter.org
Challenge Sailors San Diego
Challenge Sailors San Diego provides therapeutic and recreational adaptive sailing opportunities for people with disabilities to enhance their dignity, well being and independence.
Website: https://www.challengedsailors.org
City of Chula Vista Park and Recreation
Website: https://www.chulavistaca.gov/departments/recreation/about-us/inclusion-programs
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures
Common Ground Outdoor Adventures’ mission is to provide life-enhancing outdoor recreational opportunities for youth and adults with disabilities. We provide adaptive equipment and support, which enable people with disabilities to participate in outdoor recreation alongside their peers. These experiences reduce stereotypes, raise awareness, and empower people to realize their full potential. Our trips are not only accessible physically but also financially.
Website: http://cgadventures.org
Crossroads Adaptive Athlete Alliance
Crossroads Adaptive Athletic Alliance is the only 501(c)(3) nonprofit of its kind – building a stronger community for adaptive athletes and their coaches. It helps athletes with permanent needs participate in life-changing fitness opportunities through education, grants and competition.
Website: http://crossroadsalliance.org/programs
Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra
Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra is a volunteer-based nonprofit dedicated to changing the lives of children and adults with disabilities and their families. We believe the freedom and exhilaration of outdoor challenges changes lives. No one should be left behind simply because of a disability!
Website: www.disabledsportseasternsierra.org
Flaghouse
FlagHouse is a premier global supplier of equipment and resources for physical education, sports, fitness, and recreation and for health, special needs, special education, sensory integration, and multisensory environments. We offer more than 20,000 innovative and quality products and solutions to enhance the lives of people of all ages and abilities.
Website: http://www.flaghouse.com/
i-FLY Indoor Skydiving
All Abilities Night at iFLY is a unique event that makes the dream of flight a reality for those in the special needs community. This program has been custom designed for those with physical and cognitive challenges to create an environment of support and inclusion, while focusing on making what seems impossible, possible. If you have someone in your life who is unable to participate in able-bodied activities but still wants to be challenged and push their limits, this is the perfect event to join.
Website: https://www.iflyworld.com/programs/all-abilities
Ivey Ranch
Ivey Ranch Park is dedicated to encourage the interaction of disabled and able-bodied children, of all ages, by providing educational and recreational activities. Since 1983 we have served children and adults with disabilities but will not exclude the able-bodied, since integration, inclusion and interaction are important components of our program. Currently, over two-thirds of our children here at the Ivey Ranch Child Development Center have moderate to severe disabilities which include behavioral disorders, genetic disorders, and disabilities caused by accident or trauma. School-age children come for after-school, summer and off-track care. The Center also operates a preschool, in-home respite services, and summer camp.
Website: www.iveyranch.com
KIT-Kids Included Together
KIT stands for Kids Included Together, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in San Diego, California in 1997. The mission of Kids Included Together is to support recreational, child development and youth development programs that include children with and without disabilities. KIT’s goals are to enrich the lives of all who participate and to increase understanding and acceptance of disabilities as a natural part of life.
Website: http://www.kitonline.org
Kyle Pease Foundation
The purpose of the Kyle Pease Foundation (KPF) is to create awareness and raise funds to promote success for persons with disabilities by providing assistance to meet their individual needs through sports. Programs may include scholarship opportunities, purchasing of medical equipment or adaptive sports equipment for others or contributing to other organizations that provide similar assistance to disabled persons as well as participating in educational campaigns to create awareness about Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities. The Kyle Pease Foundation will provide these services directly to individuals, as well as to partner with other existing non-profit organizations, to achieve these goals. Direct benefits will be limited to persons with disabilities who need adaptive sports equipment, mobility devices or medical care.
Website: http://www.kylepeasefoundation.org
Lake Elsinore Park and Recreation ARISE Program
A.R.I.S.E. (formerly Special LE) is a program that offers activities and events for children and adults with special needs. Our mission is to provide a safe and health-driven environment where individuals and their loved ones will feel welcomed and able to enjoy their time participating in fun and educational activities and events.
Website: https://www.lake-elsinore.org/165/ARISE
Lake Elsinore Special Needs Baseball
Special needs baseball program in Riverside County.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Elsinorevalleychampionsspecialneedsbaseball/
Life Rolls On
Life Rolls On is a non-profit organization that inspires others to see the boundless possibilities beyond paralysis. Established in 2002, LRO’s signature adaptive surfing program, They Will Surf Again, has grown into a catalyst of hope for thousands of individuals throughout the world.
Phone number: (424) 272-1992
Website: www.liferollson.org
McLindon Family Foundation
The mission of the McLindon Family Foundation (MFF) is to provide adaptive bikes to children with special needs so that they can build critical core strength, boost confidence and nurture friendships, all of which help these children maximize their potential and participation in society.
Website: https://www.mclindonfamilyfoundation.org/
Mountain High Adaptive Ski and Snowboarding Lessons
The Mountain High Adaptive Program’s mission is to help disabled skiers develop new skills and build self-confidence. It strives to create an atmosphere that produces positive physical, psychological and therapeutic results. The program serves a variety of students with disabilities, including those who are blind, deaf, amputees, or post-polio patients, along with those who have spina bifida, birth defects, paralysis, cerebral palsy or cognitive disability. At Mountain High, adaptive lessons are taught in a private format (one-on-one or two-on-one) under the supervision of the Mountain High Winter Sports School. The instructors are PSIA-trained in adaptive ski techniques.
Website: http://www.mthigh.com/lessons-rentals/lessons/adaptive-lessons
National Ability Center
The National Ability Center is committed to the development of lifetime skills for people of all ages and abilities by providing affordable outdoor sports and recreational experiences in a nurturing environment. The objective of these experiences is to build self-esteem, confidence and physical development, thereby enhancing active participation in all aspects of community life. As a national role model, the Center promotes the concept of ability through integration, public awareness and education.
Website: www.discovernac.org
National Sports Center for the Disabled
National Sports Center for the Disabled’s mission is to positively impact the lives of people with any physical or mental challenge through quality adaptive recreation programs in over 20 sports.
Website: www.nscd.org
National Wheelchair Basketball Association
In our pursuit of excellence, the National Wheelchair Basketball Association provides qualified individuals with physical disabilities the opportunity to play, learn and compete in the sport of wheelchair basketball.
Website: http://nwba.org
Ocean Healing Group Adaptive Surfing
Ocean Healing is a fully ADA-compliant and wheelchair-accessible retreat, where our surf coaches take on the kids (caregiving as well), teaching them how to surf, swim, play on the beach, go on nature rides, explore, etc. The parents, on the other hand, can relax, unwind, and enjoy themselves, without having to worry about constantly supervising their child or taking care of the day-to-day routines associated with their special needs…This way, both the kids and the parents get to have a blast and enjoy all of the many great things Costa Rica has to offer!
Website: https://www.shakacostarica.com/ohg
Onit Ability Boards
Onit Ability Boards provides disabled persons with a revolutionary new piece of adaptive sports equipment for traversing water. Utilizing technology dating back thousands of years to Southeast Asia in conjunction with modern technology, we have created a paddle board that accommodates wheelchairs for individuals who are paraplegic, amputees or with related disabilities.
https://www.accessrevolution.com/products-1/adaptive-paddleboard
PE Central
The following website should be helpful to those who are responsible for educating students with various disabilities.
Website: http://www.pecentral.org/adapted/adaptedmenu.html
Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport – Educational Toolkit
The educational toolkit has been developed by the PHC and the British Paralympic Association as part of the Fit and Healthy project. Funded by the Coca-Cola Foundation, this project aims to raise awareness of the health benefits of activities and sports for adults with disabilities and to help these adults understand how to get fitter and healthier. Find your disability-specific guide and get started today!
Website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/phc/educational-toolkit
PossAbilities
PossAbilities is a free, non-profit community outreach program operated by Loma Linda University Health. Its goal is to provide those with permanent physical disabilities support and resources to stay active and healthy in life.
Website: http://www.teampossabilities.org
Race Running USA
RaceRunning is an international disability sport in which children and adults compete with running bikes on an athletics track. Events range from 40 to 3000 meters. Competitors are classified based on their disability and race against other competitors in their class. Currently there are only a few dozen RaceRunners in the USA.
Website: https://www.racerunningusa.com
Safe Splash
At SafeSplash, we believe swimming is a life skill®, and that all children are safer and happier when they learn the basics of water safety, no matter the challenges they face. Our Adaptive Aquatics program considers the basic goals of each swimmer as we promote comfort in the water, focus on safety, and teach the basics of swimming to the extent a child’s physical and developmental ability allows.
Website: https://www.safesplash.com/special-needs-swimming-lessons
San Diego Sled Hockey Program
The mission of the San Diego Sled Hockey Program is to provide a USA Hockey and U.S. Paralympic-recognized sled hockey program including clinics, recreational and competitive teams, and resources for those interested in pursuing national, international, and Paralympic competition for San Diego-based disabled athletes.
Website: http://www.sandiegosledhockey.blogspot.com
SDSU Fitness Clinic for Individuals with Disabilities
The Fitness Clinic for Individuals with Disabilities is designed to help those in the San Diego community with disabilities to maximize their level of fitness.
Contact: Jan Thurman
Web: www.sdsufitnessclinic.org
SoCal Adaptive Sports
SoCal Adaptive Sports’ mission is to enable people with disability to participate inclusively throughout society by creating greater equity and inclusion through developing, planning and implementing competitive and recreational sports and other opportunities. Serves the Riverside and other Southern California communities.
Website: https://socaladaptivesports.org/
Spokes’n Motion
Spokes’n Motion has become the leading distributor of adaptive Alpine and Nordic skiing equipment in the USA. Following the American success of the Spokes’ n Motion company, a European subsidiary was opened in 2003 in Toulouse (France). Spokes’n Motion offers a full range of sport and recreational equipment for all seasons! We invite you to visit our products sections to discover our wide range of equipment. Our passion is bringing adaptive sports equipment to those who are disabled so that they, too, can enjoy the great outdoors.
Website: http://spokesnmotion.com
SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes
SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes (S4EA) is a new sports program serving athletes with developmental disabilities age 5 through adult in San Diego County.
Email: sds4ea@gmail.com
Web: www.s4ea.org
Staying Driven
Staying Driven is a live, interactive, online-based experience. The vision is to create an affordable avenue that allows individuals to enjoy fitness from the comfort of their own homes. The program is unique in the way it chooses to cater to the specific needs of the adaptive and aging population. It merges top-notch coaching with a supportive community to help everyday people achieve a greater fitness potential. This educational, interactive experience is available to the public regardless of age, location, abilities or skill level. The mission is to educate, empower and motivate athletes through fitness — giving everyday people the opportunity to celebrate success.
Website: https://www.stayingdrivenlive.com
Surf and Turf Therapy
Surf and turf therapy provides therapy services targeting traditional, functional goals using non-traditional approaches, including surfing, horseback riding and community-based activities. These unique approaches offer unparalleled opportunities to address deficits in strength, stability, body awareness, coordination, safety awareness, tone management, flexibility, attention and sensory integration. The focus of treatment is to improve daily life skills, such as walking, postural alignment, talking and writing, rather than simply teaching individuals how to surf or ride.
Website: https://surfandturftherapy.org
Surfing Madonna
Every summer, Surfing Madonna Oceans Project hosts an incredible surf camp for kids with special needs at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. This program, which is completely free to all participants, is an opportunity for these youths to build their self-confidence as they learn a new skill and have fun! Participants receive one-on-one surf instruction at these camps which happen twice a month from May to September. For many of the children, surfing is a dream they never thought possible for them. Realizing this dream can be life changing.
Website: https://www.surfingmadonna.org/surf-camp
Tap Fever Studio
Tap Fever Studios provides accessible dance opportunities to people of all ages, with and without disabilities. We empower students to achieve their goals through the performing arts.
Website: Adaptive Dance for Tap and Jazz Tap Fever Studios
Temecula Community Services SKIP Program
The S.K.I.P. (Supporting Kids Involving Parents) Program, is an exciting “parent and me” program that provides children with special needs opportunities for sensory enrichment, improvement of social skills, recreational play, and parent support. While children learn and grow, parents interact with others who understand what it is like to raise a child with special needs.
Website: https://temeculaca.gov/807/Special-Needs-Programs
The City of San Diego
The City of San Diego provides sports, recreation, leisure and outreach services to San Diegans with physical, mental and emotional disabilities. Services include therapeutic recreation programs and adaptive sports opportunities that address the special needs of individuals with disabilities who have difficulty accessing and participating in recreation opportunities offered to the general public.
Website: http://www.sandiego.gov/park-and-recreation/activities/trs
The Miracle League
The Miracle League is a charitable organization that provides children with mental and/or physical challenges with opportunity to play baseball as a team member in an organized league.
Web: www.miracleleagueofsandiego.org
Tierrasanta Ayso Region 152 Soccer Vip Program
The AYSO VIP program provides a quality soccer experience for children and adults whose physical or mental disabilities make it difficult to successfully participate on mainstream teams. All VIP players have the opportunity to play a minimum of one-half of each game.
Phone: 858-999-0294
Website: EPIC Program(Formally VIP) (ayso152.org)
Trinity Riding Center
People with physical, mental and physiological impairments may use equine activities — adapted as needed — as a recreation and leisure experience. The emphasis is on an enjoyable and relaxing experience that provides additional therapeutic benefits in the areas of socialization, posture, mobility, and an overall improved quality of life. Individuals may participate in horse related activities to their maximum ability in an atmosphere of support, structure and socialization for the primary purpose of the natural enjoyment of the activity.
Website: http://trinityridingcenter.com
Triumph Foundation
Triumph Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children, adults and veterans with spinal cord injury/disorder to triumph over their disability and to inspire them to keep moving forward with their lives by pushing themselves to get better every day. The organization works to minimize the obstacles that one faces after suffering traumatic injury by providing resources, hope and security to people living with paralysis – not just initially when the injury occurs, but as a lifelong support network. Additionally, the foundation holds events.
Website: https://triumph-foundation.org
UCLA Recreation Center – Adaptive Recreation
UCLA Adaptive Recreation is committed to providing innovative services, educational resources, and adaptive equipment and programming to individuals with disabilities.
Website: Adaptive Recreation | Recreation (ucla.edu)
Unrecables
A non-profit, volunteer-based organization, serving the recreational needs of people with disabilities. It promotes adaptive sports and encourages people with disabilities to participate in sports, recreational, and social activities in their communities. This organization is located in Los Angeles.
Website: http://unrecables.com
U.S. Youth Soccer TOPSoccer
U..S Youth Soccer TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community-based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by youth soccer association volunteers. The program is designed to bring the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl, who has a mental or physical disability. Our goal is to enable the thousands of young athletes with disabilities to become valued and successful members of the U.S. Youth Soccer family.
Website: http://www.usyouthsoccer.org/programs/TOPSoccer/
USARC-US Adaptive Recreation Center
Offers summer and winter adaptive recreation programs and camps.
Web: www.usarc.org
United States Paralympics
U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, is dedicated to becoming the world leader in the Paralympic sports movement and promoting excellence in the lives of people with physical disabilities. Since its formation in 2001, U.S. Paralympics has been inspiring Americans to achieve their dreams. Through education, sports programs and partnerships with community organizations, medical facilities and government agencies, U.S. Paralympics is making a difference in the lives of thousands of physically disabled people every day.
Website: https://www.usopc.org/paralympic-sport-development
Waves of Impact
The ocean is said to help in healing wounds, both externally and emotionally. The unexplainable wonders of riding a wave and spending a day at the beach can make everything see a bit easier. There is something very soothing bout being in the ocean. Waves of Impact introduces individuals facing exceptional challenges the thrill of riding waves, but also focus on building and rebuilding confidence in those who need it most.
Website: https://wavesofimpact.com/about-us
Wheelchair Dancers
A program which offers ballroom and latin dancing for people with disabilities.
Phone: 858-573-1571
E-Mail: info@wheelchairdancers.org
Website: http://www.wheelchairdancers.org