{"id":32,"date":"2018-11-27T04:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adaptiveaz.wordpress.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2018-11-29T19:58:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:58:57","slug":"in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"In Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While precise national numbers of adaptive sports participants aren&#8217;t available, there is an upward trend at high school level. <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalconference.adaptivesportsusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-NFHS_Sandy-Searcy.pdf\">Figures from the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS)<\/a> show an increase from 9,491 athletes in the 2015-16 school year to 11,439 in 2017-18. According to their data, the most popular adaptive sports are basketball, football and handball.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33 size-large alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/national-participation-high-school-adaptive.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/national-participation-high-school-adaptive.jpg 1833w, https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/national-participation-high-school-adaptive-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/national-participation-high-school-adaptive-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/national-participation-high-school-adaptive-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several academic studies support the hypothesis that adaptive sports improves employment. Disabled Sports USA surveyed its chapter members in 2009, and found that t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabledsportsusa.org\/survey-finds-disabled-sports-usa-participants-twice-as-likely-to-be-employed-as-adults-with-disabilities\/\">he employment rate was more than twice as high<\/a> as for the general disabled population.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsusa.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsusa.jpg 1833w, https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsusa-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsusa-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsusa-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While precise national numbers of adaptive sports participants aren&#8217;t available, there is an upward trend at high school level. Figures from the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) show an increase from 9,491 athletes in the 2015-16 school year to 11,439 in 2017-18. According to their data, the most popular adaptive sports are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/in-numbers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Numbers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/paralympicsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}