All abilities in sport

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Sport and recreation play an important role in improving the health and well-being of all people regardless of their age, gender, religion, cultural background, sexual orientation, disability, income or location.

Find out about teams, groups and services that offer everyone access to community-based sport and recreation activities. 

Access for All Abilities

Access for All Abilities provides Australia’s only first-point-of call service connecting people with a disability to sports and recreational opportunities in Melbourne, Victoria

Sport Inclusion Australia

Sport Inclusion Australia, formerly AUSRAPID, is a national sporting organisation established in 1986 to assist the inclusion of people with an intellectual impairment into the mainstream community using sport as the medium. Sport Inclusion Australia has worked within the Australian sporting sector with outstanding success and is proud of the increasing numbers of sporting organisations and clubs taking responsibility for inclusion with the focus on ability and based on social inclusion principles.

Special Olympics

Special Olympics has grown from a backyard camp into a global movement that has been transforming the lives of people with an intellectual disability for almost 50 years. The global sporting community was pioneered by the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister to US President John F Kennedy as well as Rosemary who had an intellectual disability. Today, Special Olympics supports over 5 million athletes in 177 countries.

Disability Sports Australia

Disability Sports Australia is one of Australia’s nine National Sporting Organisations for people with a disability (NSODs), all of whom share a common purpose to improve the lives of Australians living with disability using sport as the medium.

Disability Sport and Recreation

Disability Sport and Recreation vision is to create Victoria where all people with disability can choose and access any sport or active recreation activity they want to engage with. Our Mission is to provide and promote positive outcomes for people with a disability. For 60 years we have worked directly with many stakeholders including community organisations, state sporting associations, local government, state government and partners to achieve our mission.

Deaf Sports Australia

Deaf Sports Australia is a national peak body responsible for providing advice, services, support and network with other governments, businesses, sporting bodies and the communities surrounding deaf and mainstream sports involving its deaf and hard of hearing athletes in Australia.

Deaf Sports Australia provides programs through two main channels:

  • Active Deaf Programs – an initiative funded and supported by the Australian Sports Commission
  • Government’s initiatives – school events and established programs involving deaf and hard of hearing school children

 

 

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