Research has shown that an inclusive way of thinking helps to promote social interactions on and off the sports field. The most important process of accepting differences is sensitization, which is to achieve the positive change of an understanding and accepting environment through purposeful effort and involvement. The role of teachers of people with disabilities is significant in this process. The KézenFogva Foundation has applied this to develop an inclusive pedagogical, theoretical, and practical pilot project, the “SHAPE Complex Sensitisation Programme”, an innovative special pedagogy infrastructure which highlighted all practices promoting the realization of inclusion. After their training, teachers (majority educators) participating in the project (N = 26) applied the acquired knowledge in theme weeks among their students (N = 191), extending sensitization by further dissemination. Besides showing the direction and extent of changes in the sensitivities of teachers and their students (emotional, intellectual, and behavioral) with the help of the attitude scale, CATCH, the research was designed to introduce an innovative way of inducement of non-disabled athletes as well as special sport professionals. Although only a limited number of teachers could participate in the training, the success and effectiveness of the program was illustrated that even with this small sample, changes in the attitudes of the participants could be detected and that the training held by the foundation and its partners was effective, along with a noticeable change in the attitude of students.

Several dimensions of health were affected by the segregated lifestyle associated with the pandemic, such as emotional health, physical activity, and reduced social relationships, which became more pronounced in these isolated populations. In adolescence, the importance of peer relationships gradually grows, also for people with disabilities, and sustaining these bonds became increasingly problematic during quarantine. The difficulties caused by the use of infocommunication tools among young people with intellectual disabilities made it even more challenging to maintain contact.In this study we present a good practise convenient for this purpose. The target group was adolescents in the Northern Great Plain region who were athletes with intellectual disabilities. Our goal was to continue the sports activities of young people with intellectual disabilities within the framework of the pandemic, and at the same time we wanted to maintain peer relationships in addition to physical fitness. We conducted focus group interviews among the target group, three times, with parental presence online, engaging a total of 15 young people with intellectual disabilities. The results showed that young people suffered from isolation, based on which a pilot program was launched. The project consisted of online trainings, which enabled, as an extra benefit, young volunteers studying at the Faculty of Health of the University of Debrecen to participate along with young people with disabilities. Increased social interactions emerged from online training. After six months, we repeated the focus group interviews among the research participants.The results showed that the pandemic affected the pre-existing tight agenda for the target population, influencing all dimensions of health. In addition to maintaining physical fitness, participants improved their general well-being and adapted more easily to the difficulties caused by the epidemic.

A tanulmány a Speciális Olimpia mozgalom Kölyöksportoló Programjának nemzetközi felmérő eszközének magyarországi adaptációs folyamatáról ad pillanatképet. A vizsgálat a Magyarországon működő Kölyök Sportoló csoportokat vezető szakemberek bevonásával jött létre abból a célból, hogy az angol nyelvű Young Athletes Motor Skills Assessment Check List magyarra fordítását követően azt kipróbálva a gyógypedagógusok véleményezzék a felmérőlapot és ezzel segítsék annak a magyar gyakorlatban való meghonosítását.

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A tanulmánykötet:Kovács Klára - Ceglédi Tímea - Csók Cintia - Demeter-Karászi Zsuzsanna - Dusa Ágnes Réka - Fényes Hajnalka - Hrabéczy Anett - Kocsis Zsófia - Kovács Karolina Eszter - Markos Valéria - Máté Szabó Barbara - Németh Dóra Katalin - Pallay Katalin - Pusztai Gabriella - Szigeti Fruzsina - Tóth Dorina Anna - Váradi Judit: LEMORZSOLÓDOTT HALLGATÓK. In: OKTATÁSKUTATÓK KÖNYVTÁRA 6. Debrecen, 2019.