Classification - the seventh component

One constant challenge in any competitive situation or recreational game with special needs, is how to have a relatively equitable contest or challenge. The means of achieving this is classification - a term specific to the sporting context of ‘sport for people with a disability provision’.

In the construction of all the Project Adapted games, this has been considered the seventh adapting component. In some cases, the way the games have been constructed has enabled this component to be solved as an integral aspect of the game, with the arrangement of the other six components, for example:

• the way Polybat pair doubles can be played
• the zoning in Zone Hockey
• the matched bowling/batting of ranked Table Cricket contestants.