Florida Adaptive Sports

Florida Adaptive Sports is a social sports club that helps keep disabled Floridians of all ages healthy for life by providing an outlet for friendship and activity.

What is a social sports club? A group of disabled individuals coming together for recreational exercise and/or team competition in an environment that fosters friendship and community.

There are many health benefits to participating in sports. However, for wheelchair users, participating in adaptive sports teaches chair-skills and control, skills that directly translate to the real world and help increase confidence. While amputees and other types of disabilities may only use a chair to participate in a particular sport, they too reap the benefits of activity and exercise, using their bodies in ways they may not be able to otherwise.

Just as important are the mental-health benefits. For someone with a disability, it can be very freeing and world-changing to be around people with similar disabilities. Instead of being isolated, they now have a network of people to turn to for advice, concerns, or discussion about their disability. People who get it because they understand what they are going through. Adaptive sports increases quality of life through these friendships and increased socialization.

Adaptive sports is hugely beneficial to the disabled community. Florida Adaptive Sports champions the betterment of adaptive sports throughout the state by making it more accessible to disabled people of all ages.

Created in 2016, Florida Adaptive Sports is a community outreach program of AGED, Inc. a 501 (c)3 nonprofit

AGED, Inc.

AGED is a nonprofit special needs trust company that helps seniors and the disabled qualify for government benefits, such as Medicaid, when they are over the financial limits.

Through their nonprofit work, AGED focuses on supporting disability and guardianship related causes, through programs like Florida Adaptive Sports.

For more information, visit www.TrustAGED.org.