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Class is in session: Goalball DeCal provides opportunity
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Last Updated October 22, 2020
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Sports are often recognized as a universal language because of their ability to bring people together regardless of background. While sports such as basketball and soccer are all widely known, perhaps no game strikes home the true purpose of sports quite as well as goalball. People with blindness or visual impairments often get the short end of the stick when it comes to sports, but goalball works around this issue by having people of all abilities wear blackout eye shades during competition.
Inclusivity is a term that’s usually not intertwined with sports, but some progress has been made. Universities such as UC Berkeley, which has more than 3,000 community members with disabilities, offer inclusive recreational sports such as wheelchair basketball, goalball and yoga. UC Berkeley is first in a lot [...]