ABSTRACT
This chapter examines disabled children's participation in sports and physical activities, and in particular their own experiences and perceptions of their use of assistive activity technologies. It draws on a literature study of the subject, taking its point of departure from the literature of disability studies and childhood studies. Traditionally four different perspectives have characterised approaches to childhood studies: the psychological/developmental perspective, the educational/behavioural perspective, the medical/individual perspective and the sociological/socialisation perspective. The chapter focuses on publications that highlight the voices of disabled children who participate in physical leisure activities, with two publications that focus on the role of assistive activity technologies. Four factors in particular reoccur when disabled children speak about why they participate in physical leisure activities. These factors are that the activities are fun, that the assistive devices are cool, that they can participate with friends and family and that they can participate in normal and common activities.
