Kareemah N. Batts

Disability Outdoors: A Guide to Accessible Adventure Kareemah N. Batts

Everyone deserves to experience trail recreation in a meaningful way, but that looks different for all of us. So how do we make the outdoors more accessible for people with disabilities? The answers are not as complex as you might think. This guide will help anyone from anywhere plan accessibility in the outdoors for groups or individuals with disabilities. Disability Outdoors is an asset for outdoor leaders, participants, and enthusiasts. This guide covers topics like what questions to ask, when to help or not, how to be fully prepared for an outdoor activity with a range of abilities, and how to be a good outdoor neighbor to disabled people--from interactions to stewardship, information shared, invitations made, and more. Organized around hiking, camping, backpacking, and climbing, this guide covers information and considerations relevant for the eight major categories of disability: -Mobility/physical -Spinal cord -Head Injuries -Vision -Hearing -Cognitive/learning -Psychological -Invisible Every person experiences disability differently, and different disabilities pose unique challenges for different activities. But every single person, especially including able-bodied allies, can learn what to consider when it comes to making everyone feel comfortable, and connected in the outdoors.