Ask LUDIAAccessibility Starting Point Guide
Designing Physical Education and Activity Spaces
These starting points support designing physical education and activity spaces, such as a gym, playground, or sports field, so that every child can move, play, and belong alongside their peers.
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Pathway 3 · Accessibility for Learning Communities
Discover Inclusive Playgrounds
National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability
A guide to designing and choosing playgrounds where every child can play. It argues for inclusive design that goes beyond basic compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the US disability law. It covers physical and programmatic access, costs and fundraising, and directories of inclusive playgrounds.
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Pathway 4 · Critical Frameworks and Curriculum Resources
Co-designing with Children with Disabilities
Weavly, Inclusive Design Research Centre
A practical guide to involving disabled children as co-creators, so the children who will use the space help design it.
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Pathway 1 · What About Curb Cuts?
The Curb-Cut Effect and Championing Equity
Learning for Justice, Southern Poverty Law Center
The story of how design built for disabled people benefits everyone. It shows why these spaces should be inclusive from the start.
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Pathway 3 · Accessibility for Learning Communities
Sensory Spaces in Schools
National Council for Special Education, Ireland. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab).
Guidance on designing sensory spaces, useful when planning a calm or sensory-friendly area within a play or community space.
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Pathway 3 · Accessibility for Learning Communities
A Guide to School Physical Activity Programs
National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability
A US guide to physical education and activity programmes that include students with disabilities. It covers PE classes, break times (called recess in the US), before- and after-school programmes, and peer-to-peer inclusion models, with tools for assessing how accessible an existing programme is.
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