WHEELCHAIR CHAMPIONS: A HISTORY OF WHEELCHAIR SPORTS

REISSUED 2006  Harriet May Savitz Authors Guild BackinPrint Books – 

I am a Physical Therapist, Temple University 1980. I am acting as the
consultant for my mother,  author Harriet May Savitz. As a child I grew up riding the backs of wheelchairs, chasing shot-puts and javelins, and experiencing the discrimination of the disabled as we were led into the backs of restaurants, as we watched hotel guests jump from hotel swimming pools  out of fear, as wheelchair sports team members jumped in after a hard day of competitions, and as we faced obstacle after obstacle that these athletes overcame in order to get recognized as competitive athletes. I experienced this through the eyes of the disabled as I was the daughter of an author writing a book about the history of wheelchair sports. My father also became involved and coached a wheelchair basketball team. This was in the late 60's early 70's before the laws on accessibility helped to break down the mental and physical barriers that the disabled population encountered in society on a daily basis.  I was a child then and eventually this all lead to a passion to become a physical therapist.  Many of the coaches, referees, and professionals who performed the classification of the wheelchair sports athletes were Therapists.  This book Wheelchair Champions, A History of Wheelchair Sports, has just been reissued and I feel that it would be an asset to any rehabilitation and educational environment for inspiration, motivation and enlightenment. Thank you for your time. Beth Savitz Laliberte
gonesailing@optonline.net

.  Would you consider buying a book and donating it to your local college, high school, library, hospital, or organization concerning the disabled.

                                                  Thank You, Harriet May Savitz


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WHEELCHAIR CHAMPIONS

            A HISTORY OF WHEELCHAIR SPORTS

(Illustrated with Photographs by Jim McGowan)


Originally published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1978

NOW REISSUED 2006 by Authors Guild Backinprint.com

In celebration of the International Year of Disabled Persons, WHEELCHAIR
CHAMPIONS Received Recognition from the President’s Committee for the Handicapped.

“This would be exciting and informative enough if it simply described the
growth of organized sports (including special facilities and equipment) for
the handicapped or described the sports careers of men and women who are paraplegics, quadriplegics, polio victims- and it does.  What it adds is a great deal of information about attitudes toward the handicapped, facts
about their capabilities as citizens and workers as well as wheelchair
athletes, and many suggestions about ways in which the lot of the
handicapped person could be improved by such concrete changes as more ramps…”

                                                -Bulletin Center for Children’s Books


“It is a story of hope for the newly injured and their families as one reads
of the accomplishment of others.”

                                                 - Catholic Library World


“The history of wheelchair sports in the U.S. is well told in Wheelchair
Champions.”

                                                   -Interracial Books for Children

“Harriet Savitz writes thoroughly about the sports of basketball, ping pong,
javelin, discus, shot put and club throw; and free-style and backstroke
swimming, and the boost in morale that competitive sports can provide.

                                                     Philadelphia Inquirer

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Wheelchair Champions – A History of Wheelchair Sports "In celebration of the International Year of Disabled Persons, Wheelchair Champions received recognition.” Also other reviews Catholic Library World “It is a story of hope…”   Interracial Books for Children – “The history of wheelchair sports in the U.S. is well told…”  Bulletin Center for Children’s Books “This would be exciting and informative enough if it simply described the growth of organized sports….for the handicapped or described the sports careers of men and women who are paraplegics, quadriplegics, polio victims – and it does.  What it adds is a great deal of information about attitudes toward the handicapped, facts about their capabilities as citizens and workers as well as wheelchair athletes…”