🌍 Program Overview ISAPA 2025

ISAPA 2025 offers a groundbreaking, multi-faceted program featuring over 200 presentations from international experts, researchers, educators, practitioners, and advocates in the field of adapted physical activity and inclusion.

Theme: Shifting the Dial

Dates: June 16–20, 2025

Location: Munster Technological University, Kerry, Ireland. Home to the UNESCO Chair on Transforming the lives of people with disabilities, their families, and communities through physical education, sport, recreation and fitness. 

Why Attend ISAPA 2025?

• Stay ahead of global trends in adapted physical activity

• Discover tools and strategies to foster inclusive participation

• Collaborate across disciplines and borders

• Experience Ireland’s leadership in inclusion and sport innovation

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What's On?

Oral Presentations

The heart of the symposium, this strand includes a wide range of topics such as:

• Inclusive physical education and sport pedagogy

• Motor development in children with autism, intellectual disabilities, and visual impairments

• Mental health, physical activity, nutrition, sleep and digital technology

• Innovative training programs for educators and coaches

• Intersectional perspectives on disability, gender, and cultural identity

Special attention is given to applied and evidence-based interventions across educational and community settings.

Program & Policy Presentations

These sessions explore:

• National and local inclusive sport policies

• Universal design for learning in physical activity

• Equity in access to sport and education

• Case studies from Paralympic pathways, inclusive events, and community sport initiatives

They highlight how policy drives practice and inclusive innovation.

Poster Sessions

An engaging display of early-stage research, evaluations, and grassroots programs addressing:

• Technology-assisted adapted physical activity

• Inclusive curriculum design

• Family and community engagement

• Physical activity in refugee contexts and underserved populations

Practical Workshops

Hands-on sessions include:

• Inclusive dance, aquatics, football, cycling, Gaelic games, golf and adventure therapy

• Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Program (MATP)

• Paralympics Next Gen 

• Adapting to include people with visual impairment and deafblindness

• Coaching youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities

• Assistive technologies and adaptive strategies in PE

• Interdisciplinary approaches to rehabilitation and community recreation

Panels & Discussions

ISAPA 2025 brings thought leaders together to explore:

• Disability studies and physical education

• Advocacy, storytelling, and lived experience

• Methodological innovations in inclusive research

• International cooperation for capacity building

• Policy and standard in disability sport, physical education and physical activity

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A Truly Global Gathering

ISAPA 2025 will host participants from over 50 countries, representing diverse cultures, contexts, and disciplines, all united in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals and disability rights through physical activity.

Whether you are an academic, practitioner, policymaker, student, or self-advocate, this symposium offers a space to learn, share, and co-create solutions for a more inclusive and active world.

Join us in Tralee for a transformational week of learning, collaboration, and inclusive action.