GLOBAL VISION PROJECT: Global Vision of Rehabilitation
and Recreation for People with Disabilities in the 21st Century

RESOLUTIONS:
"1988 UN Decade's Response Limited, Depressed Lifestyle, Underserved:
Support of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons, 1983-1992; and,
Support for International Year for Special Recreation for Disabled People, 1990"
By Special Recreation for disABLED International

WHEREAS, the World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons was adopted 3 December 1982 by the United Nations General Assembly ..., and

WHEREAS, the United Nations Member States response in 1988 by both national voluntary organizations and national governments has been limited; and,

WHEREAS, it is vitally important that all nations and all societies gain the desired benefits of increased understanding and acceptance of people who are disabled, increased services and programs for disabled, and increased fulfillment for every disabled infant, child, youth, adult, and senior; and,

WHEREAS, the recreation lifestyles of disabled people are:

1. Significantly depressed compared with non-disabled,

2. Significantly under-served compared with non-disabled in school programs through college and university where 99 percent of programs and services are directed to able-bodied, particularly to the most physically and socially and intellectually capable rather than being to those in need or most in need,

3. Significantly under-served compared with non-disabled in terms of local, state, and federal recreation and parks services, the non-disabled receiving 99 percent of all funding and effort while simultaneously subjecting disabled to a range of barriers,
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4. Significantly under-served compared with non-disabled in child and youth recreation services with notable exceptions such as Boy Scouts of America and YMCA-USA,

5. Significantly under-served compared with the population at large in terms of cultural activities (art, dance, drama, literature and music both in performing and in appreciation-attendance), leisure activities, etc., and,

6. Sinking even further below those of non-disabled over the last 20 years (starting in the mid-1970s) of community settlement because the former institutional recreational services are not being provided in community settlement leading to a higher level of debilitating inactivity than was experienced even in institutions;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT
Special Recreation for disABLED International proclaims its sponsorship of

INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR SPECIAL RECREATION FOR DISABLED PEOPLE, 1990

in support of the

United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons, 1983-1992; and

ENCOURAGES all national recreation advocacy, commercial, consumer, program, professional, public, private, and other services to support the United Nations Decade and the SRDI International Year.

ADOPTED MARCH 1, 1988, Board of Directors
Special Recreation for disABLED International
[Website Secretariat/Clearinghouse]
Prof. John A. Nesbitt, Ed.D., CTRS, Pres/CEO,
362 Koser Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa 52246-3038 USA.
TELEPHONE 319/337-7578 --- FAX Available on Request
EMAIL john-nesbitt@uiowa.edu --- WEBSITE http://www.jccniowa.org/~recdsabl
N.B.: All communications by EMAIL; All information on WEBSITE, only.

GLOBAL VISION PROJECT: Global Vision of Rehabilitation and
Recreation for People with Disabilities in the 21st Century
A Joint Project by
Disability International Foundation AND
Special Recreation for disABLED International

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