| Last updated on August 13, 2008 |
AAASP envisions a society where interscholastic sports for youth with physical disabilities or visual impairments are a common and vital part of America's education system.
Description:
The American Association of adaptedSPORTS™ Programs (AAASP) is an award-winning interscholastic athletic association whose mission is exclusive to student athletes with physical disabilities or visual impairments.
In Georgia, AAASP oversees a statewide interscholastic athletic system for these students in grades one through 12. AAASP and the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) have put Georgia at the forefront of interscholastic adapted athletics through a dual-governing alliance wherein AAASP governs all sports for students who have physical disabilities in GHSA member high schools.
In July 2006, the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) followed suit in forming a partnership with AAASP to lay the groundwork for bringing adaptedSPORTS™ to Alabama high schools.
AAASP also extends its reach nationally through its Coaching Certification Program. Through sports training and the adaptedSPORTS™ Coaching Guidebook series, AAASP prepares coaches, educators and other professionals to oversee the athletic development of this underserved student population.
Additionally, adaptedSPORTS™ equipment and rulebooks are available through FlagHouse, a global sports equipment distributor.
History:
The AAASP model has roots in Georgia's DeKalb County School System, when in 1990, Bev Vaughn, CEO, left Emory University to become this system's first full-time adapted sports coordinator to restructure and direct the after-school program that had existed since 1980. In 1996, the Atlanta Paralympic Organizing Committee named the resultant program the Model for the Nation. That same year, Vaughn and Tommie Storms, COO, founded AAASP as a nonprofit organization to broaden the scope of youth adapted sports programming throughout Georgia. They linked community partners such as local school systems, government agencies, and community organizations to promote the institutionalization and sustainability of AAASP's interscholastic adapted sports and to ensure perpetual growth in numbers of teams and athletes. Today, AAASP holds 90-plus sanctioned competitions, including state tournaments, throughout the school year.
Just five years after its incorporation, AAASP and the state's interscholastic athletic governing body, the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) formed an alliance to promote the AAASP Adapted Sports model as a viable component of the state's overall athletic structure. In this parallel relationship, GHSA has designated AAASP as the official sanctioning and governing body for Georgia's interscholastic adapted athletics and consults with AAASP in adapted athletic issues and in training coaches to oversee the athletic development of students with physical disabilities or visual impairments. This partnership helps this student population to be academic achievers, as well as healthy athletes and cultivates a greater population of qualified adapted sports educators.
Contact people:
Office fax number: 404/294-5758
Address:
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P. O. Box 451047
Atlanta, GA 31145 |
Web Site: http://www.adaptedsports.org
Directions:
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Our physical address is 945 N. Indian Creek Dr., Clarkston, GA 30021. We are located on N. Indian Creek Drive between Memorial College Avenue and E. Ponce de Leon Avenue. We are in an old white Victorian. . . (more)
Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Marta E-9 Indian Creek Station,
Walk distance (in minutes): 45 Min.
Nearest Bus Stop: Marta Route 122-GA Perimeter College, 5 minute walk |
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