Silent Rackets for Better Inclusion

What makes visible the disability? Loss of a limb? Limited physical capacity? But some disabilities are invisible until we discovered. Such as; hearing impaired. They're the silent members of the disabled community. Many of them don't experience physical restrictions but they living in silent isolation in our loud community. Especially, the hearing impaired children heavily experience isolation from their peer groups. They're losing their self-esteem, communication skills, and social abilities. Many of them gradually isolated from society and lost in their silence.In that situation, we can, unfortunately, mention the social exclusion of hearing-impaired children because of inadequate inclusive attitudes toward those children. The researches and studies of WHO show that hearing-impaired children mostly face social isolation. Actually, the solution to this situation is simple; providing socially inclusive approaches toward to hearing impaired children like mentioned in European 2020 Strategy. The EU 2020 Strategy gives importance to issues of the disabled population. As EGO Sports Club is aimed to create inclusive sports activity for hearing impaired children. Hearing-impaired children are not different in physical fitness than children with normal hearing. On the other hand, hearing-impaired individuals don't have the same level of social and cultural opportunities with other individuals because of their sensory deficiencies. The main reason for this situation is their preferences for communicating frequently with each other and avoiding communicating with other individuals in society. Another issue is that the physical fitness levels of impaired children are lower than healthy children of similar age. The retardation in motor development, postural failures, balance failures, weakness in muscle strength and problems in social adaptation in these children can affect their physical fitness level in a negative way.