Self-Organization Development of American Disability Sport and Its Implications to China

This paper did an empirical study on American disability sports organizations and discussed how American disability sport realized its self-organization evolution from inter-organizational cooperation in the perspective of self-organization by the methods of literature review, field investigation and interview. Conclusions: Under the lead of all levels disability sports organizations, American disability sport built up from scratch and from weak to strong, and gained recognition of mainstream society gradually. And it actualized self-organization evolution, which is from disorder to order, from low level to high level, from simple to complicate, through internal cooperation mechanism. The conclusions can provide some implications to China, such as create social environment for disable people to participate in sport, support and cultivate disability sports organization, enforce combine between disability sport and normal people sport. This study provided valuable material to understand foreign disability sport