Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair basketball is one of the most popular adaptive sports in the disability community. Check these organizations to learn more about joining a local wheelchair basketball team, the equipment needed, wheelchair basketball rules and regs, and other tips for participation.
Organizations
San Diego Adaptive Sports Foundation
The 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. SDASF works to coordinate and foster a program of adaptive sports by providing competitive league sports, recreational team sports, instructional camps, and sports clinics, and offers other adaptive sports based on need and interest.
Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana Sports Program
RHI Sports believes that sports, recreation, and leisure play important roles in the intrinsic motivation of people with disabilities to re-enter the workforce, develop strong social skills, and improve levels of physical fitness.
Achilles is a worldwide organization, represented in sixty countries. Our mission is to enable people with all types of disabilities to participate in mainstream athletics, promote personal achievement, enhance self esteem, and lower barriers.
International Wheelchair Basketball Federation
IWBF is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide opportunities for persons with a disability to play the game of wheelchair basketball.
Courage Camps offer safe, accessible, natural environments where children and adults with physical disabilities, sensory and language impairments, and other disabilities or illnesses discover abilities they never knew they had or they thought they had lost.
American Association of Adapted Sports Programs
AAASP's mission is to oversee the partnership of leaders in education and community to lay the foundation for a national network of interscholastic adapted athletic programs.
A national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that offers sport teams, afterschool programs, camps, and competitions for youth and adults with physical disability and visual impairment. Technical assistance and professional development opportunities such as webinars also available for parents/caregivers, teachers and local service providers.
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.
