Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Athletes with intellectual disabilities return to the Paralympics



This video was produced with the help of a public engagement grant from the British Psychological Society, who are my employers.

You can read more about Professor Jan Burns' work in Nature.

1 comment:

Richard said...

This was great news, especially as te reason to ban all intellectually disabled athletes was drastic.

What happened in the 2000 games was clearly wrong (read more about it here if you are unaware of what happened: http://www.willowstairlifts.co.uk/stairlifts-type/intellectual-disability-and-the-paralympic/) but it is no reason to punish ALL intellectually disabled athletes!