For able and disabled alike, school is a tremendous opportunity to learn to live in society. Among the many classes provided, sport plays an important role. Unfortunately, the majority of the 52,000 disabled children enrolled in a regular class in France* are automatically excused from attending PE classes because of the lack of qualified teachers. Hence the FFH’s idea to combat this discrimination by training PE teachers who want to obtain a “ParaSport certificate.” To achieve this goal, the FFH wants to establish premises entirely given over to providing this training.
Specialist teachers to promote ParaSports at school
Physical education and sports classes taken as study time... this is an all too frequent situation for school children with disabilities attending regular schools. The main reason is the lack of teachers with the necessary qualifications to include them in these classes. FFH (French Federation of ParaSports) has decided to change all this.
The ParaSport certificate is designed to put an end to the exclusion of young disabled students from sports classes.
Specific premises and equipment for these classes
The project will come to fruition at the FFH’s headquarters in
Paris’s 20th arrondissement, which already houses the International
Residence. This center, entirely refurbished to meet the relevant standards,
welcomes disabled people from the world over, sportsmen and women or
not, for training courses and seminars. The aim now is to extend the
available surface area by creating an additional floor for a training
center with the necessary equipment.
The 60,000-euro contribution from the Veolia Environnement Foundation
will be used to buy eight wheelchairs designed for basketball, table
tennis and athletics. It is also planned to buy Braille printers, assorted
software and a magnetic loop for the deaf. Finally, specific furniture
for the teachers, themselves disabled, will be installed in the center.
Everything will be done to ensure that the training (three weeks over
a year) is provided under the best possible conditions. This initiative
is designed to ensure that there are no longer any disabled children
excluded from PE classes because of their disability.
* Source: French Ministry of Education and Social Affairs for the Handiscol project’.
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