Enabling and empowering athletes with disabilities through increasing social athletic identity.

• Main Authors: Komathi A. L. E., Hoe, Heng Howe., Lee, Wendy Jia Yan.
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Promotional communication::Communication campaigns
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14863
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

There is still strong social stigma associated with athletes with disabilities (AWD) in Singapore (Cratty, 1980; Page & Peterson, 1998). Hence, the theoretical concept of athletic identity (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder, 1993) is important as sports play a role in reducing stigma and improvin...