Special Needs and Disabilities 
No Comments Are there any outdoor activities that one can engage in with young adults with intellectual disabilities?
The answer is a definite yes indeed!! Below are some resources which will be useful for reference:
1) Mountaineering expedition by persons with intellectual disability at this link:
http://jid.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/3/183
To contact via: http://jid.sagepub.com/cgi/feedback
2) Movement For the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore at http://www.minds.org.sg/main/contact.php
To contact via : Email: minds@minds.org.sg
“120 beneficiaries aged 10 to 50 years old are from the following six voluntary welfare organisations (VWO) as well as a direct beneficiary group of YMCA:
* Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled
* The Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore
* Movement for the Intellectually Disabled
* Metta School
* Grace Orchard
* Association for Persons with Special Needs – Centre for Adults
* Y Special Teens Arts & Recreation Society (Y STARS) – YMCA’s beneficiaries
Seal Enterprise and The Absorbent Mind, both specialists in formulating outdoor activities will be crafting suitable land and water activities for the beneficiaries and volunteers in the camp. Some highlights of the camp include the campfire, where volunteers will put up performances for the beneficiaries as well as the night walk to Kallang River, where volunteers would teach the importance of safety in crossing roads and provide them with an opportunity for social immersion”.
[Source: http://www.ymca.org.sg/Web/main.aspx?ID=17112516-fd59-425c-abe2-5a54f2ccc97d,,&TargetPageID=]
** All websites last accessed 9 Feb 2009
NLB Books for reference:
1) Outdoor pursuits for disabled people / by Norman Croucher / Call No: English 796.01960942 CRO -[REC].
2) Textbook of sport for the disabled / Sir Ludwig Guttmann. /Call No: English 796.0196 GUT
3) MINDSpeak./ Call No: English 362.38095957 M issue May0.. {A periodical available at Lee Kong Chian Reference Library].
For the availabilities and holdings of the above titles as well as other relevant titles, please do access NLB’s online catalogue
If you have any enquiries or comments, please drop us an email at ask@nlb.gov.sg and we will reply within 3 working days.
Contributed by 
Ms A. MANIMEGALAI
Associate Librarian
Adult and Young People’s Services
Posted by 
Mr Justin Tan
Librarian
Adult and Young People’s Services