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Article: ArcadeAccess: pinball providing active recreation opportunities to persons with upper extremity impairment.
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- Palaestra
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- March 22, 1991
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ArcadeAccess[TM]: Pinball Providing Active Recreation Opportunities to Persons with Upper Extremity Impairment
One important factor contributing to an individual's life satisfaction is that derived from participation in leisure activities (Allen & Beattie, 1984; London, Crandall & Seals, 1977; Haaivo-Mannilo, 1971). For the participating individual, recreation activities can assist in the development of new skills, promote physicial health and conditioning, and provide opportunities for socialization (Schleien, Light, McAvoy, & Baldwin, 1989). Although persons with disabilities have been found to have the same preferences for recreation activities as their ...