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IHSA Creates Post-Season Test Program for Disabled Student-Athletes
The initiative would allow students with abilities to compete in parallel events at state finals in a select group of sports, the Chicago Tribune reports.
, the Illinois High School Association announced Monday the launch of a state finals pilot program in certain sports for disabled student-athletes, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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This two-year program, which begins in the 2012-13 school year, will be centered on cross country, bowling, swimming and diving, and track and field, and will give student-athletes with disabilities more ways to compete in parallel events at IHSA state finals, the report stated.
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The IHSA already has accommodations for student-athletes with prosthetics, in wheelchairs and with visual or hearing impairments who compete in sports, the report said.
For more details, read the full story from the Chicago Tribune.
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