IHSA Creates Post-Season Test Program for Disabled Student-Athletes
The initiative would allow students with abilities to compete in parallel events at state finals in a select group of sports, the Aledo Times Record reports.
After a special committee discussed the issue in April, the Illinois High School Association announced the launch Tuesday, June 12, of a state finals pilot program in certain sports for disabled student-athletes, the Aledo Times Record reports. READ: Should the IHSA Create Different Sports Programs for Disabled Students? This two-year program, which begins in the 2012-13 school year, will be centered on cross country, bowling, swimming and diving, and track and field, and will give student-athletes with disabilities more ways to compete in parallel events at IHSA state finals, the report stated. The IHSA already has accommodations for student-athletes with prosthetics, in wheelchairs and with visual or hearing impairments who compete in …
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Special Parent
1:16 pm on Thursday, April 26, 2012
You obviously have not looked around your community and seen how many kids could benefit from this. Go on living in your "Lala Land" and hopefully you will never have a child or family member that could benefit from such programs. Your comments are disgraceful.- more ›