[Sports in the centres of vocational training and re-training (author's transl)]

The majority of disabilities are coupled with impairments of the motor system. In its action programme on rehabilitation, the Federal Government therefore recognises that sports should invariably be included in present-day rehabilitation as provided in the centres for vocational rehabilitation. This thesis was investigated on the basis of a study of 14 vocational re-training centres (= 93 percent) and 13 vocational training centres (= 81 percent) in operation in 1978/1979. It was found that there still is marked understaffing in this sector, especially as regards specifically trained personnel. The majority of sports facilities moreover are still in need of equipment capable of stimulating motaivation. The organisational patterns found in the field of sport for the disabled widely lack uniformity, with solutions being rather unsatisfactory.