Potential Activities
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Benefits and Barriers
Children experience numerous mental and physical benefits from engaging in outdoor activity. Technology has become a significant factor in children's struggle to spend time outdoors. As our technological use skyrockets and more and more children have access to social media and electronic games at their fingertips, it has become harder to encourage children to spend time outdoors. Children with disabilities are even less likely to be included in outdoor activities due to social and accessibility barriers. Social inclusion in both outdoor freeplay and specified outdoor recreation programs is lacking for children with disabilities, furthering the issue of lowered involvement. Outdoor programs in schools would benefit from becoming more inclusive for all youth. Although small-scale programs exist to make the outdoors more accessible to children with disabilities, more comprehensive support is needed. Creating a website that combines resources available to those with disabilities about outdoor recreation could help increase outdoor involvement among children with disabilities.