Integrating Disabled People İnto Social Life With The Hypotherapy-Hydrotherapy Method

While many countries have started taking action to improve the lives of people with disability, much remains to be done. The evidence in the World report on disability suggests that many of the barriers people with disability face are avoidable and that disadvantages associated with disability can be overcome. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to explore experiences of children with disability on therapeutic recreation, namely Hydrotherapy and Hyppotherapy methods. It was also aimed to train the trainers who train people with disability. Technologically facilitated and environmentally positioned, hydrotherapy and hyppotherapy implementations bring together the distal and the proximate to produce a particular experience of space, a particular mobilisation of emotion, and a particular physical and mental enhancement. We drawn upon project within the social sciences that has acknowledged the importance of an embodied engagement with environments and the activities that are seen as therapeutic or restorative for their ability to instil a sense of well-being and calm through a re-centering of the self. To promote awareness of the importance of health-enhancing therapeutic recreation activities (i.e., Hydrotherapy and Hyppotherapy implementations), the project Integrating Disabled People into Social Life with the Hyppotherapy-Hydrotherapy Methods has been implemented by an international consortium which lead of Department of Exercises and Sports in people with disability, University of Inonu. The consortium was consisted with Rijeka Disability Sports Association, Szczecınska Szkola Wyzsla Collegıum Baltıcum, and Municipality Lousada. The project was started on 1st of January, 2019 and completed on 31th of December, 2020 in totaly for 24 monhts. The first kick of meeting of our project, in coordination of Inonu University Faculty of Sports Sciences, was held between 17-18 March 2019 in Malatya which city of the Turkey. The second interim meeting of our project was held on 16-17 July in Lousada by Municipality of Portugal. The third meeting of our project was held on 20-21 November in the city of szczecin, Poland, which is a partner country. The final meeting of our project was held online on 10.11.2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Croatia partner attended all meetings with 1 missing person. Portugal partner attended the third interim meeting 1 missing person. Implemented activities consisted of four basic stages: Stage 1: Project Meetings, Stage 2: Trainer Training and HHTP, Stage 3: Seminars and Conferences, Stage 4: Measurements. In order to perform quality control efficiently, we assigned tasks, prioritized what’s most important to our paerners, and set project timeline, milestones and dependencies, and manage our paerners’ entire projectloads. Our collaborative partnership offered an opportunity to develop, transfer and implement outputs, and engage into intensive dissemination and exploitation activities of our innovative ideas about hydrotherapy and hydrotherapy methods for children with disability. We involve various organisations and actors in and outside sport, including in particular public authorities at local, regional, national and European levels, sport organisations, sport-related organisations and educational bodies. Our project management and implementation phases of hydrothrapy and hyppotherapy address the impact of a health condition on a person’s everyday life, by optimizing their functioning and reducing their experience of disability. It expands the focus of health beyond preventative and curative care, to ensure people with a health condition can remain as independent as possible and participate in education, work and meaningful life roles.