Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study

Waldemar Skowroński; Bartosz Molik; Robert Szyman; Bogusław Słupczyński; Miguel Gomez; Jolanta Marszalek

doi:10.5114/areh.2024.145133

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Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study

Waldemar Skowroński

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Bartosz Molik

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Robert J. Szyman

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Bogusław Słupczyński

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Miguel Angel Gomez

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Jolanta Marszalek

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Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland
Faculty of Secondary Education, Professional Studies and Recreation, Chicago State University, Chicago, USA
Technical University of Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Advances in Rehabilitation, 2024, 38(4), 45–56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/areh.2024.145133

Online publish date: 2024/11/19

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Skowroński W, Molik B, Szyman RJ, Słupczyński B, Gomez MA, Marszalek J. Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study. Advances in Rehabilitation. 2024;38(4):45-56. doi:10.5114/areh.2024.145133.

APA

Skowroński, W., Molik, B., Szyman, R. J., Słupczyński, B., Gomez, M. A.,  & Marszalek, J. (2024). Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study. Advances in Rehabilitation, 38(4), 45-56. https://doi.org/10.5114/areh.2024.145133

Chicago

Skowroński, Waldemar, Bartosz Molik, Robert J Szyman, Bogusław Słupczyński, Miguel A Gomez,  and Jolanta Marszalek. 2024. "Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study". Advances in Rehabilitation 38 (4): 45-56. doi:10.5114/areh.2024.145133.

Harvard

Skowroński, W., Molik, B., Szyman, R., Słupczyński, B., Gomez, M.,  and Marszalek, J. (2024). Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study. Advances in Rehabilitation, 38(4), pp.45-56. https://doi.org/10.5114/areh.2024.145133

MLA

Skowroński, Waldemar et al. "Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study." Advances in Rehabilitation, vol. 38, no. 4, 2024, pp. 45-56. doi:10.5114/areh.2024.145133.

Vancouver

Skowroński W, Molik B, Szyman R, Słupczyński B, Gomez M, Marszalek J. Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study. Advances in Rehabilitation. 2024;38(4):45-56. doi:10.5114/areh.2024.145133.

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Introduction
Special Olympics Unified Sports® organizes teams whose members are athletes with intellectual impairments and partners. The athletes and partners train and play together during competition. There are three unified sports models: competitive, player development and recreation. The role of for athletes with intellectual impairments and partners should be equal. The aim of the study was to compare game performance of partners and players with intellectual impairments in unified basketball.

Material and methods
Sixteen male teams competed in unified basketball in Special Olympics Games (2010). Teams consisted of 10 athletes - six players with intellectual impairments and four partners. Athletes played basketball on four sport skill ability levels (1-4). Twenty-five unified basketball games were observed, 42 variables were evaluated. Kolmogorov Smirnov, Mann-Whitney U test were used. Effect size was used to show the strength of differences. The statistical significance was set at p < .05.

Results
Partners obtained better values than players in 31 game indicators. Assists, defensive rebounds, completed passes, all passes, successful passes off a dribble and turnovers while dribbling, and all dribbling differentiated both groups on all four levels.

Conclusions
Partners played a dominant role in the game. Coaches need to develop cohesion in team players require many training sessions together.

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adapted physical activity, game analysis, intellectual disabilities, unified sports

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Cooperation between players with intellectual impairments and their partners in Special Olympics unified basketball – an observational study

Waldemar Skowroński 1 , Bartosz Molik 1 , Robert J. Szyman 2 , Bogusław Słupczyński 1 , Miguel Angel Gomez 3 , Jolanta Marszalek 1

adapted physical activity, game analysis, intellectual disabilities, unified sports

Waldemar Skowroński

¹

,

Bartosz Molik

¹

,

Robert J. Szyman

²

,

Bogusław Słupczyński

¹

,

Miguel Angel Gomez

³

,

Jolanta Marszalek

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