Disability and Youth Sport

Hayley Fitzgerald is a Senior Lecturer in sport, leisure, and culture at Leeds Metropolitan University, England. Prior to taking this Hayley worked as a researcher at Loughborough University. She has also worked for a number of disability sport organizations in England, and has extensive experience of developing accessible research strategies.

• 1. Bringing disability into youth sport Hayley Fitzgerald 2. Disability Sport: Historical Context Karen DePauw 3. Disability and Inclusion Policy Towards Physical Education and Youth Sport Andy Smith 4. Disability, Physical Education and sport: Some Critical Observations and Questions Len Barton 5. The Voices of Students with Disabilities: Are They Informing Inclusive Physical Education Practice? Donna Goodwin 6.‘We Want to Play Football’ – Girls Experiencing Learning Disabilities and Their Footballing Experiences Annette Stride 7. Physical education as a normaliZing practice: Is there a space for disability sport? Hayley Fitzgerald and David Kirk 8. Picture this! Student co-researchers Aspley Wood School 9. The pedagogy of inclusive youth sport: working towards real solutions Pam Stevenson 10. Reflecting on Teaching, Learning and physical culture through Narrative Catherine Morrison 11. Are you a ‘Parasite’ Researcher? Researching disability and youth sport Hayley Fitzgerald 12. Future directions in youth sport and disability: development, aspirations and research Hayley Fitzgerald and Anne Jobling

"A pioneering collection, drawing together important contributions from those at the forefront of research, including young disabled people themselves. As a result it should be essential reading for academics, researchers, students and practitioners interested in the critical issues in this area", Jessica Louise Macbeth and Anthony John Maher, Sport and Society