MEDICINA SPORTIVA - Journal of Romanian Sports Medicine Society

Individual basics of basketball for disabled athletes and partners

The aim of the research was to evaluate the ability of Special Olympics athletes, together with able-bodied athletes of the same age to correctly perform the fundamental individual of the passage in the basketball team sport in some high schools of the City of Naples. Objects to promote the inclusion and collaborative function of the discipline by verifying the improvement of school performance by monitoring the participants. To the sample of twenty (20) subjects (12 males and 8 females) of which eleven (11) athletes with intellectual disability, 8 males and 3 females, and 9 partners, 5 males and 4 females, aged 14 to 16 years, was given a training program, to be held both in the morning and afternoon hours, to detect the ability to collaborate, indicated according to the number of passes performed to other athletes, and the accuracy of the steps during the course of basketball competitions. Average precision increase of about 6% (of which 7% disabled and 5% partner). Average precision increase of about 6% (of which 7% disabled and 5% partner). Increase in number of passages of about 7.9% (of which disabled 7.8% and partners).