Document Type
New Directions for Evaluation and Judging
Abstract
Recently I have written about the challenges of creating a space for physically challenged students in individual events competition (Kosloski, 1994). My research suggests that attitudes and inexperience among coaches and critics are preventing the total integration of physically challenged students into the forensics activity. Many coaches have admitted that while they will not discourage students with disabilities from participating in forensics, certain barriers make such participation difficult, if not impossible. These barriers include budget constraints, building/room accessibility, transportation, peer rejection, and judging concerns, among others. While increasing gender and minority diversity in forensics has recently been given much needed attention in the forensics community little attention has been given to the issue of physically challenged students in forensics. Yet their integration is important to the idea of total diversity in forensics.
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Recommended Citation
Kosloski, David L.
(1998)
"Creating Space for the Physically Challenged Competitor in Individual Events,"
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/ndcieproceedings/vol3/iss1/8