Online courseSELF-PACED / ONLINE
Creating High-Quality and Effective Cancer Rehabilitation Programs: Lessons from a Decade of Success
Presented by ACSM in partnership with Clinical Exercise Physiology Association (CEPA).
$30
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Summit session · 1 CEC
2024 Summit - Improving the Health of People With Intellectual Disabilities
People with intellectual disabilities (PWID) are motivated to improve their fitness. A 2020 Special Olympics survey found that among PWID who belonged to a gym, most attended regularly, with 74% attending at least twice per week. However, PWID continue to face many barriers to fitness…
About this course
People with intellectual disabilities (PWID) are motivated to improve their fitness. A 2020 Special Olympics survey found that among PWID who belonged to a gym, most attended regularly, with 74% attending at least twice per week. However, PWID continue to face many barriers to fitness participation, including lack of access and social support. This session features fitness resources that will equip attendees to deliver impactful fitness programming for PWID. Attendees will understand pathways for engaging PWID on the individual level as clients, community level through roles such as Fitness Coach, and systems change strategies to improve fitness access for PWID.
What you will learn
- Understand current gym participation trends among people with ID, as well as barriers and facilitators of community-based fitness programming for people with ID.
- Attendees will understand the health and wellness impact of fitness programming in the lives of people with ID and tools they can use to promote continued fitness improvements.
- Attendees will understand opportunities to engage in improving the health and fitness of people with ID through involvement with Special Olympics, including a fitness coach role.
- Accessibility
- All course content will be presented to you electronically. This includes all videos, handouts, evaluations and certificates of completion. We strive to adhere to current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards in our ongoing effort to provide an accessible learning experience for all users. To report a course accessibility issue, please email [email protected] .
- Author/Presenters
- Melissa Otterbein
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