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Sports
Sports Structure
The Ministry of Youth and Sports is responsible for co-operation between the state on one side and the sport organisations and federations on the other side. The government gives financial support to all the sport federations, included FFH, FFSA and FSSF for all the actions that carry out but nothing specially concerns their plans for integration.
France does not have a co-ordinating body of sport for the disabled. Sports federations are autonomous and disability based. There are three main sport federations for disabled people in France :
“Handisport” French Handisport Federation FFH
The FFH is a member of the “Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français” (C.N.O.S.F) since 1973. This federation has delegation of the French authority from the Sport State Secretary to promote and to organize sport and physical activities for people with a physical disability or a visual impairment. This federation proposes many competition or leisure sports. You can see all available sports under the link “Les sports par discipline”.
FFSA : French Federation of Adapted Sports
This is a sport federation for mentally disabled persons. This federation has delegation of French authority from the Sport State Secretary to promote and organize sport and physical activities. The FFSA’s sport commission works for the integration of mentally retarded athletes in the regular settings, helps the organisation of integrated meetings at local level and works on official agreements with the other regular federations. The psychiatric patients practice sports in the scope of FFSA, no different status or opportunity for them concerning integration.
FFSF: French Federation for the Deaf
This is an affiliated member of the C.N.O.S.F, the European Deaf Organization and the International Committee of Silent Sport. Members can choose between four types of permit: competitive, individual, leisure or educational.
Special Olympics France (S.O.F)
What is Special Olympics? (pdf)
pdf-document with goals, philosophy and principles of Special Olympics
French Paralympic Committee
The official site of the French paralympic athletes you find in the site of Handisport FFH.
Other interesting links
Handica.com (page of the symposium 2005)
FFT: Frech Tennis Federation
It has a commission “handicap” which host mostly motor impaired persons for wheelchair tennis. Wheelchair tennis players take a permit-holder from FFT.
French Judo Federation
It has a commission “handicap” which host mostly mentally retarded, blind and deaf persons.
Regional: At Montpellier , a structure which aim is the integration accompaniment through APA practice was created more than 10 years ago: SIRAPS: (Structure for Integration and Rehabilitation through APA). This organisation works on elaboration, organisation, realisation and follow-up of integration plans in APA for handicapped persons. It works both for special institutions and for parents, with different kind of publics: children, teenagers or adults suffering from mental deficiency, autism or psychiatric disease.
French Federation of Blind and Visually Impaired (FAF)
Many ski stations are now adapted to welcome handicapped persons: adapted equipment disposal (chair-skis for autonomous or guided practice), transportation stuff on the bottom of the runs, trainers sensitised to handicap, teaching of the staff, etc.
Portes du soleil
The station of Morzine posesses 3 monitors ESF specialised in teaching people with a disability how to ski.
In Combloux (Haute Savoie) they are also specialised in working with this matter.
CREPS - Pôle ressource Sport et Handicaps
CREPS du Centre
CREPS Rhone-Alpes
CREPS de Toulouse
CREPS Aquitaine
CREPS de Corse
CREPS de Montpellier
CREPS du Poitou-Charentes
CREPS des Pays de la Loire
CREPS de Dinard Bretagne
CREPS d’île de France
CREPS de Reims
CREPS de Vichy Auvergne
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