Autism Spectrum Disorder and Youth Sports: The Role of the Sports Manager and Coach

Promoting Physical Activity for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Barriers, Benefits, and Strategies for Success

“…Physical activities and organized sports or play often present difficult scenarios for students with ASD (Menear & Smith, 2008;Obrusnikova & Dillon, 2011;Ohrberg, 2013), which results in reduced participation. Similarly, children with ASD who engage in peer interactions less often than typical peers are also less physically active (Pan, Tsai, & Hsieh, 2011).…”

A social relational analysis of an impairment-specific mode of disability coach education

“…These data illustrate the complexity of deconstructing participants' understandings of disability within sporting environments. Participants expressed understandings that aligned with an entrenched medical model of disability conflating the personal and developmental impairments associated with ASD (Ohrberg, 2013) as the main cause of disability in sport.…”

“…For example, people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are one of the most inactive populations (Rosso, 2016), and a significant barrier to inclusion is that coaches lack access to specialised support and knowledge (Rosso, 2016;McMaster et al, 2012). Therefore, research on disability coach education is timely, as, Ohrberg (2013) argued, high-quality training and education for coaches is "the essential component" (p. 54) in creating an 'inclusive' coaching workforce.…”

Striking Down Barriers: Parents’ Perspectives of Youth Sport Programs for Their Children with Disabilities

“…Thus, volunteers and coaches in these programs have both a significant opportunity and a significant responsibility. Negative experiences for participants and their families may influence continued participation, performance, enjoyment, and overall success (Jorgensen, McSheehan, & Sonnenmeier, 2007;Ohrberg, 2013;Bruce, Harman, & Baker, 2000).…”