About Us
Adaptive Plays is a federally incorporated Canadian company based in Toronto. The main purpose is to provide people with disabilities, such as vision or movement, the opportunity to participate in games and physical activity more completely.
Recognizing that people with disabilities have limited access to a variety of leisure activities, the goal of Adaptive Plays is to engage with organizations large or small and adapt standard games of enjoyment or competition to accommodate you, your child or your student in at home, school, gym or in fitness centre.
Essentially, we look forward to partnering with you on games played anywhere that helps include participation by everyone! For example, in the first step in Canada, in the case of table tennis, we can convert any table tennis table into a showdown table for play and leisure by your students or in your family home.
The Story of
ADAPTIVE PLAYS
Adaptive plays company was established with the aim of designing, manufacturing, and exporting educational, rehabilitation and sports equipment for people with special needs. Physical education, play, and leisure time are important part of everyone’s life. For young children, play is a learning experience that develops cognitive, social and motor skills. For adults, play provides entertainment and relaxation, which leads to improved levels of well-being and good health.
Physical activities can greatly improve the lifestyle of people with special needs. It can improve competency in gross motor skills, encourage an active lifestyle, improve self-esteem and social skills, and maintain motivation in various life activities.
When people with special needs participate in physical activity there is a definite improvement in flexibility, muscle strength, endurance and cardiovascular efficiency, and this leads naturally to their positive advancement. The net result is a win-win for both, people with special needs and the community at large.
Adaptive Plays was established to bridge the need of organizations working with special needs groups wishing to develop their skills through regular physical education and sport. We help you easily build the equipment needed to make the dreams of special needs groups an active reality.
Drawing upon a reservoir of past inventions and practical work experience, we will partner with you to translate new therapy intervention developments into equipment that adapts to and goes beyond the disability, while allowing for physical activity, fun and play.
US Patent Pending No. 63/009,170
Showdown Table Convertor
The present invention relates in general to the sports for visually impaired people, and in specific to showdown sport equipment. Convertor of table tennis table to showdown table can be mounted on any tennis table and convert it to a showdown table.
Please contact us for more information and partnerships.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE FOUNDER
Bahram has unprecedented experience training and working with individuals with visual impairment and other group of exceptional children. He has been working with a group in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada to manufacture equipment or create services to help exceptional children exercise and develop their mobility.
Bahram has a PhD in Physical Education and has done extensive studies on optimization of leisure time for people with Visual Impairment (IVI). He has also designed an embossed sports photo booklet for people with IVI.
Dr. Jadidi has more than thirty-seven years of experience in teaching physical education and making physical education facilities for exceptional people. He is well familiar with research methods and innovation in the field of physical education for people with special needs and is a talented designer of new gaming equipments. He was awarded as the Best Teacher (2008), Best Inventor (2009) and Best Researcher in his fields in Iran.
His innovative methods approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Industrial and Scientific Research Organization in Iran include;
– Embossed Sport Pictures, published in the magazine of the Intl Blind Sport Association 1996 (I.B.S.A.)
– Cycling Field for the blind, published in the 5th Scientific Congress Sydney 2000 Paralympic
– Basketball field and suitable equipment’s for the blind, published in the 11th I.C.E.V.I. World Conference 2002