Video: Adaptive Rock Climbing for People With Disabilities

Adaptive rock climbing equipment can help people with disabilities climb indoor walls. Find out about working with people with disabilities at a rock climbing wall in this free video on adaptive climbing.

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Good morning and welcome to How to Learn to Do Accessible Rock Climbing for People With Disabilities. The first thing you have to keep in mind when working with people with disabilities and taking them rock climbing is you want to be open and we have a quote that we use around the office where I work at, a place called Splores, it's a non-profit that does outdoor recreation for people with disabilities. And the quote is, "Be open, because some communicators are deaf. Because some visionaries are blind. Because some movers and shakers are paralyzed. Because the only true disability is a mind stuck in the closed position. " And the Be Open quote is what we're going to demonstrate today. When working with people with disabilities, the first thing you want to keep in mind is to use what we call people first language. People first language is when you always put the person before their disability. For example, a kid with autism is a kid with autism, he doesn't, he's not an autistic kid. You always want to put his name first, say his name's Johnny, you always want to say Johnny and Johnny has autism or Johnny is in a wheelchair. People first language is very important in today's world. It shows respect and people with disabilities have names, you want to use their names. Some facts about people with disabilities in America is right now there's about 59 million Americans with disabilities, whether those disabilities are physical, cognitive, emotional or behavioral, 59 million people. If you look at the American population right now, the American population is at 300 million so if you break those numbers down, it's about 1 out of every 6 people have a disability and so again goes back to the point of using people first language.

Adaptive Rock Climbing for People With Disabilities

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