{"id":967,"date":"2016-07-18T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health\/?p=967"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:42:27","slug":"accessible-adaptive-sports-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/accessible-adaptive-sports-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Ability: Wheelchair &amp; Adaptive Sports Clinic 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us July 26 at the SPC St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus and\u00a0discover how sports can be\u00a0accessible to all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.spcollege.edu\/survey\/21405?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP and attend\u00a0the Discover Ability: Wheelchair &amp; Adaptive Sports Clinic 2016.<\/a> Explore your athletic abilities regardless of mobility issues and learn how\u00a0local adaptive sports clinics can help make sports accessible. A panel of community members will\u00a0provide insight on opportunities for those\u00a0who may face physical barriers but\u00a0love sports and want to participate in events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Wheelchair-Adaptive-Sports-Clinic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-970 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Wheelchair-Adaptive-Sports-Clinic-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Wheelchair-Adaptive-Accessible-Sports-Clinic\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Wheelchair-Adaptive-Sports-Clinic-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Wheelchair-Adaptive-Sports-Clinic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Wheelchair-Adaptive-Sports-Clinic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/07\/Wheelchair-Adaptive-Sports-Clinic.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Sports clinic panelists<\/h5>\n<p>Athletes who use adaptive sports, such as the silver medalist paralympic sailor Jennifer French and sports therapist Jennifer Day, will participate in a\u00a0panel discussion addressing\u00a0barriers in the community and available resources\u00a0to overcome them.<\/p>\n<p>Others on the panel will include professional wheelchair athletes, past and current Ms. Wheelchair Florida contestants and\u00a0members of the area&#8217;s medical community.<\/p>\n<h5>RSVP today<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Online registration:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.spcollege.edu\/survey\/21405?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register today for the event<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> July 26, 6:30 &#8211; 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> SP\/G Campus Student Services Lobby, 6605 5th Ave. N., St. Petersburg<\/p>\n<h5>Accessibility Services at SPC<\/h5>\n<p>SPC offers programs to meet the needs of those who have\u00a0hearing or vision loss, a chronic illness, an emotional, learning or physical disability. Accessibility Services works with students, faculty and staff who provide accommodations that ensure equal access for all students.<\/p>\n<p>The office provides or facilitates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Academic adjustments such as early registration and exam accommodations<\/li>\n<li>Academic modifications such as course substitutions<\/li>\n<li>Aids and services including adaptive technologies, notetakers and interpreters<\/li>\n<li>College Placement Test accommodations<\/li>\n<li>Information Commons in MyCourses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us July 26 at the SPC St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus and\u00a0discover how sports can be\u00a0accessible to all. RSVP and attend\u00a0the Discover Ability: Wheelchair &amp; Adaptive Sports Clinic 2016. Explore your athletic abilities regardless of mobility issues and learn how\u00a0local adaptive sports clinics can help make sports accessible. A panel of community members will\u00a0provide insight on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/accessible-adaptive-sports-clinic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discover Ability: Wheelchair &amp; Adaptive Sports Clinic 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":943,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-orthotics-and-prosthetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}