This article suggests strategies to improve perceived competencies in children with visual impairments. Strategies to increase perceptions of athletic competence include introducing role models and using behavior assessments. Guided discovery and peer tutoring are suggested teaching techniques. Strategies to improve social competence include…

The AccesSports Model allows professionals with basic knowledge of visual impairments and mainstream sports to analyze any sports activity and design adaptations needed for targets or goals, boundaries, and rules to enable individuals with visual impairments to participate. Suggestions for modifying baseball, table tennis, swim racing, wrestling,…