A heterogeneous sample of 137 school-aged children with learning disabilities (IQ > 80) attending special needs schools was examined on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC). The results show that compared to the available norm scores, 52.6% of the children tested performed below the 15th …

Artikel voor SportNext over de ontwikkelingen op het gebied van sporteconomie in het betaalde voetbal, waardoor steeds minder clubs kans maken op succes.

Caregivers of persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) often describe the quality of the daily movements of these persons in terms of flexibility or stiffness. Objective outcome measures for flexibility and stiffness are muscle tone or level of spasticity. Two instruments used …

IT-based networking trends such as the rise of social media, crowd sourcing, open innovation, and cloud computing enable a profoundly different way of working and collaborating that challenges significantly traditional approaches of companies towards governance, i.e. the mechanisms a company employs …

This research aims to investigate the usefulness of a connected leadership model for sport organizations. The following research questions were designed: 1) How can professional sport managers successfully make use of thedevelopments of new professionalism (Leijnse, Hulst & Vromans, 2006), the new way …

Presentatie over de sociaal-maatschappelijke effecten van sportevenementen. Ondermeer op basis van onderzoek naar het breedtesport effect (trickle down effect) en de integrerende waarde van het Wereldkampioenschap CP-voetbal in Drenthe. Abstract en presentatie tijdens de Dag van het Sportonderzoek in …

Artikel in SportFM (2011, nr.4) over hoe er gezocht kan worden naar duurzame oplossingen voor vrijwilligersproblematiek in tijden waarbij steeds meer sportverenigingen er voor lijken te kiezen om vrijwilligerswerk te verplichten.

If being physically fit is of the outmost importance, then what can be said about the fitness of persons with severe or profound intellectual, visual and motor disabilities? Exactly how could their level of physical fitness be measured? Formulated differently, if a person sees little to nothing and in …

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility and reliability of the modified Berg Balance Scale (mBBS) in persons with severe intellectual and visual disabilities (severe multiple disabilities, SMD) assigned Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) grades I and II. …

Presentation exchange week social studies Hanze University