Paralympics: Where Heroes Come

The History of the Paralympic Movement

1. What is the name of the neurosurgeon who is known as the "father of the Paralympics"?
2. What events caused this person to become involved in this field?
3. What were the physical needs of Sir Ludwig’s patients?
4. What were the mental needs of these patients?
5. What specific wants do you think the patients had in regards to their physical and mental needs?  List as many as you can.
6. Find evidence in the article that the treatment of sports that Sir Ludwig introduced was not necessarily what the patients at first wanted.
7. How did the treatment meet the physical needs of the patients?
8. How did the treatments meet the mental needs of the patients?
9. How did the hospital meet the group needs (direction, order, security) of the patients?
10. How did the community of the hospital affect the patients and staff?
11. When and where were the first organized games held for athletes with disabilities?
12. Why was the actual date important?
13. By organizing national games that occurred on a regular basis, with rules and regulations similar to those of the Olympics, what type of need was Sir Ludwig meeting?
14. What is the goal of Sir Ludwig Guttmann, and that of the Paralympic movement?
15. Create a chart listing the physical, mental, and group needs, wants, and solutions that satisfied these needs and wants, and resulted in the creation of the Stoke- Mandeville Games, OR
16. Create a character sketch of Sir Ludwig Guttman. Give at least thee personality traits; support these with evidence from the information you have read. Your paragraph must have an introductory and concluding sentence.
17. Use these links to look at the Paralympic institution today. Give examples of physical, mental, and group needs, wants, and solutions that satisfied these needs and wants.