Recreation Activities

For Parents and Patients

Recreation ( 124 KB)
This handout provides brief information for teens an young adults about recreation, leisure, and social activities; from the Institute for Community Inclusion at Children's Hospital, Boston.

Special Olympics USA
Provides year-round sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with mental retardation, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community

Special Olympics Utah
Provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in 20 Olympic-type sports for children and adults with mental retardation, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.

Wasatch Adaptive Sports
Offers ski and summer programs for children and adults with special needs.

Recreation and Habilitation Services
RAH's mission is to provide developmentally disabled citizens with training to help them function effectively in society. RAH activities include: art workshops, roller-skating, singing in a chorus, and attending college football games and concerts. Services include: a network of friends; social skill instruction; education in dressing and grooming; sports and recreational activities; help in getting jobs; aid in becoming independent; education in getting along in society; and RAH van srvice to activities.

Camp Kostopulos
Provides summer residential camps, travel adventures and family enrichment for kids, teens, and adults with disabilities. It is located in Emigration Canyon, 20 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City.

Adaptive Skiing
This site links to several national and Utah organizations that offer adaptive skiing, information on lodging and general ski information.

Splore
Provides life-enhancing wilderness recreation and education to people of all abilities, including people with disabilities and special needs. They offer year-round activities in white water rafting, canoeing, rock climbing and Nordic skiing, with additional adventures including kayaking, dog sledding, and fly-fishing.

National Alliance for Accessible Golf
Project GAIN (Golf: Accessible and Inclusive Networks) is a national program promoting the use of golf as a vehicle to inclusion of people with disabilities in their community.

Park City Disabiled Recreation
Opportunities for children and adults of all abilities and their families.

Common Ground Outdoor Adventures for the Disabled
Located in Logan Utah, this organization works to provide adaptive equipment and support to enable people with diabilities to participate in outdoor recreation.

Salt Lake County Adaptive Recreation
County adaptive recreation programs are designed for individuals with special needs, however, everyone is welcome to participate in any program or class. This site lists socialization activities, classes, sports, and other adaptive programs in the Salt Lake Valley.

National Sports Center for the Disabled
With specially trained instructors and its own adaptive equipment lab, the NSCD can accommodate children and adults with almost any physical or developmental disability, including blindness, paraplegia, amputation, stroke, cancer, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment and spina bifida.

Aspiro
Provides "solution focused therapy" combined with "adventure therapy" for youth and young adults ages 10-30.

Obesity Fact Sheet ( 60 KB)
Information, tips, and resources from the Utah Family Voices Health Information & Support center.

Nutrition-Related Problems Fact Sheet ( 57 KB)
Information, tips, and resources from the Utah Family Voices Health Information & Support center.