What would you do if your participants have a disability that prevents the from engaging into the program?

For example, you planned a volleyball session for your participants, but one of your participant has a leg amputation.

Answer

If this is the actual question, I would modified the exercise session into Sitting Volleyball. So no one, even the participant who has an amputation, will feel excluded. I also want to host this event to show that we can play sports in multiple ways.

Commentary

There are multiple scenarioes to this question. For instance, the participant can feel sick on the day of the program, or the participant is immobile without a wheel chair. As long as you say how you would modified the activity, such that your participants enjoy the program and none of them feels excluded.

*If you want to sound ultra-smart, add "modified intervention." This is an OT term meaning that instead of forcing and training the patient to do an activity, the OTs provide tools to assist the patient to do the activity. For example, if a patient cannot bend his back and wear his socks, his OT would give him a sock-aid, so he can still wear his socks independently.

Photograph of a girl wearing a sock — Usually, people bend their back to wear their socks. Unfortunately, not all people can do this because of their conditions.

Photograph of a woman using a sock-aid — However, by using the stock-aid, these people can wear their socks while sitting upright. Super-convenient!
Image source: The Wright Stuff(2014), Retrieved: January, 2014,
http://www.thewright-stuff.com/best-sock-aid/

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