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This paper aims to give persons with and without disabilities an opportunity to share their experiences in an inclusive outdoor recreation (IOR) program, thus to expand the knowledge of understanding their emotion and identifying the outcomes. This study employed a qualitative design to respective sample n: 20 with disabled and n: 10 without disabled people in inclusionary outdoor programs. People without disabilities transform their social communications and developed better perceptive toward IOR program. Persons with disabilities have been positively accepted by the society and this increased their personal growth.
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The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Education of Malaysia and Research Management Institute (RMI) for providing fund. Our gratitude to Faculty of Sport Science and Recreation, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Selangor, for providing support and facilitating this research.
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Muhammed Kassim, Rn., Che Mat, H., Sulaiman, N., Abdullah, N.M., Abdul Latif, R., Abdul Rahim, .R. (2014). Inclusive Outdoor Recreation: Transformation of the Social Acceptance and Outdoor Experience of Person with Disabilities. In: Adnan, R., Ismail, S., Sulaiman, N. (eds) Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Sports Science, Exercise, Engineering and Technology 2014 (ICoSSEET 2014). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-107-7_59
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