Other parasports in Quebec
Explore the other existing disciplines and organizations that offer them to fully experience adapted sports in Quebec!
Centre d’intégration à la vie active (CIVA)
Montreal
At the heart of the action, CIVA’s mission is to study, sponsor, promote and develop programs to help people with physical disabilities integrate and actively participate in the life of their community.
Adaptavie
Quebec
Through its mission, Adaptavie promotes the health, well-being and social integration of people with disabilities in the greater National Capital Region.
Their mission is to offer educational sports programs to people living with physical disabilities, with the aim of encouraging them to acquire new skills through outdoor sports. Furthermore, sport allows them to improve their self-esteem, motivation, and physical abilities, all within an activity they can enjoy with their family and friends.
The Quebec Association for Leisure for People with Disabilities (AQLPH) and the network of regional bodies (ARLPH)
The AQLPH is a non-profit organization that acts as a leader in accessibility to an inclusive, quality leisure experience, that is, accessibility to places and equipment, to safe practice that allows the mobilization of the potential of the disabled person and to enriching and reciprocal social interactions.
Spinal cord and motor skills Quebec
Spinal Cord and Motor Disability Quebec is a non-profit organization that has been in existence since 1946. Its mission is to promote autonomy and improve the quality of life of people living with disabilities. The organization works to facilitate the social integration of people with spinal cord injuries, promote their rights, and support research. Its work also aims to develop the employability of people with physical and neurological limitations.
Quebec Association of Sports for People with Cerebral Palsy (AQSPC)
Boccia is a Paralympic sport for people with severe physical disabilities. It is similar to pétanque and curling in both equipment and strategy. It is a mixed-gender sport that requires concentration, precision, and control. It can be played individually, in pairs, or in teams.
Quebec Federation of Mountaineering and Climbing
The FQME is an established organization that brings together practitioners and organizations interested in climbing, ski mountaineering, and outdoor mountain activities. The FQME promotes the development and development of outdoor and indoor rock and ice climbing, as well as ski mountaineering, in Quebec.
Accès Grimpe aims to make climbing accessible to people with disabilities. The organization offers indoor and outdoor climbing activities, as well as ice climbing. Accès Grimpe is a multidisciplinary team that understands that adapting is a source of creativity, and that disability or not, it’s about pushing your limits!
The Quebec Fencing Federation specializes in the development of wheelchair fencing in North America. The épée, foil, and sabre disciplines are featured. With their wheelchairs secured to the ground, the fencers compete using only their upper bodies.
Quebec Blind Sports Association
Founded in 1979, ASAQ is dedicated to developing the practice of sport and raising awareness among the general public and authorities of the full potential of people living with a visual impairment.
ASAQ brings together clubs and visually impaired individuals. Since 1990, it has been officially recognized as the governing body for competitive blind sports in Quebec. It acts as the Quebec representative for the Canadian Blind Sports Association (CBSA).
Artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, is an aquatic sport that blends several disciplines, including dance, gymnastics, and swimming. This sport, which can be practiced by both women and men, is the perfect activity for developing excellent cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscular strength. Adapted artistic swimming is a growing field and is designed for people with physical and/or intellectual disabilities.
Para biathlon is aimed at athletes with physical or visual impairments, in its Paralympic format.
As in badminton, para-badminton athletes compete in women’s and men’s singles, women’s and men’s doubles, and mixed doubles events.
Quebec Cycling Sports Federation
Paracycling is aimed at people living with a physical limitation, blind people as well as people living with a visual impairment.
Para hockey is an innovative sport that incorporates the same rules and disciplinary structure as regular ice hockey. Para hockey players sit on sleds equipped with blades under the seat. Two sticks are used not only to pass, handle, and shoot the puck, but also to propel and steer the sled.
In para judo, visually impaired athletes compete in various weight categories for men and women. There are two main differences between para judo and Olympic judo: the fighters make contact with each other at the beginning of the match, and the mat has a different texture.
Para swimming is Swimming Canada’s fully integrated swimming program for people with disabilities, from grassroots to elite levels. Para swimming encompasses a wide variety of disabilities, in three categories: functional disabilities, visual impairments, and intellectual disabilities.
This sport, which first appeared in Quebec in 2008, is gaining more and more followers. It can be played indoors or outdoors. This activity, accessible to all, combines elements of different racket sports such as tennis and badminton.
The sport was quickly adapted for wheelchair users. It is also played in several regions in a hybrid form with wheelchair and standing players.
Para snowboarding was the most recent addition to the Paralympic Winter Games in 2014. Athletes with lower and upper limb impairments can participate in this sport. Para snowboarding is practiced in the Snowboard Cross (SBX) and Banked Slalom (BSL) disciplines. Each athlete competes in three runs, and the times of their two best runs are combined to determine the final ranking based on ascending times. The course is very similar to that of the snowboard cross events for able-bodied snowboarders. The event organizing committee will make some modifications to improve the course layout.
Para soccer follows the rules established by FIFA, adapted to accommodate the disability of players with mild cerebral palsy. Each match is divided into two 30-minute halves, with a 15-minute break in between. The aim of the game is to score as many goals as possible.
Would you like to get involved in the sport of target shooting? This sport is ideal if you are looking for an activity that will allow you to develop great mastery of physical and psychological elements (like yoga and some martial arts) without requiring the robust efforts associated with tougher sports, such as basketball or athletics.
Paratriathlon events are open to anyone with a disability who wants to push their limits by participating in a triathlon or duathlon. In Quebec, there are five simplified categories, inspired by the French Triathlon Federation (FFTri): wheelchair, standing, visually impaired, wheelchair/bike, and tricycle/bike.
Their mission is to offer educational sports programs to people living with physical disabilities, with the aim of encouraging them to acquire new skills through outdoor sports. Furthermore, sport allows them to improve their self-esteem, motivation, and physical abilities, all within an activity they can enjoy with their family and friends.
The federation oversees alpine skiing, ski cross, and para-alpine skiing athletes, as well as the training of coaches. Its mandate is to encourage and develop participation in this sport.
Their mission is to offer educational sports programs to people living with physical disabilities, with the aim of encouraging them to acquire new skills through outdoor sports. Furthermore, sport allows them to improve their self-esteem, motivation, and physical abilities, all within an activity they can enjoy with their family and friends.
Para-Nordic skiing is for anyone with a physical or visual disability who already practices cross-country skiing or wants to learn. In Quebec, these initiatives are still in their early stages, and we are currently working to develop this new aspect by recruiting people interested in skiing despite their disability. The Federation offers occasional introductory activities, and some clubs are ready to provide support to those who wish to practice cross-country skiing regularly and learn about competition.
Parajudo is aimed at blind people and people living with a visual impairment.
Para-taekwondo competitions involve two disciplines: Kyorugi (training) and Poomsae (martial arts forms). At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, para-taekwondo athletes will compete in Kyorugi (for athletes with limb impairments and those with an amputated arm) in various weight categories for men and women.
Association for the Development of Adapted Martial Arts (ADAMA)
ADAMA’s goal is to promote the inclusion of people with specific needs through adapted martial arts, particularly young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), visual impairment (DI), and those with physical limitations. The principle is to train for health, safely, in a suitable and inclusive social context.
Association sportive des Sourds du Québec
The ASSQ is the reference in Quebec for any deaf or hard-of-hearing person who practices or wishes to practice physical and sporting activities.The ASSQ is the reference in Quebec for any deaf or hard-of-hearing person who practices or wishes to practice physical and sporting activities.
Quebec Adapted Sailing Association
The AQVA offers people with one or more physical disabilities the opportunity to leave their wheelchairs on the dock and discover the joys of sailing. This is all done aboard a Martin 16 sailboat, specially adapted to meet individual needs. So come sail with us in Montreal at the Pointe-Claire Yacht Club or with the Sherbrooke chapter at the Petit Lac Magog Nautical Club.
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