Barriers to participation Flashcards
Disability
When a mental, physical or sensory impairment affects performance.
Inclusiveness
All people should have needs, abilities and aspirations recognised, understood and met within a supportive environment.
Integration
Able-bodied and disabled people taking part in the same activity at the same time.
Segregation
People with disabilities participating separately with other disabled performers.
Ethnic groups
People who have a racial, religious or linguistic traits in common.
Race
The physical characteristics of an individual.
Racism
A set of beliefs or ideas based on the assumption that races have distinct hereditary characteristics that give some races and intrinsic superiority over others, it may lead to physical or verbal abuse.
Channelling
Ethnic minorities may be pushed into certain groups and even certain positions within a team, based on the assumption about them.
Stacking
The disportioncate concentration of everything minorities in some positions in a sports team, which tends to be based on the stereotype that they are more valuable for their physicality than their decision-making and communication.
Gender
The biological aspects of a person either male or female.
Sexism
The belief that one sex is inferior to the other, usually women.