Inclusive playground for children with and without disabilities |
Among the major issues considered when the recommendations were made were suggestions that all playground designs should:
- Be based on children's anthropometric dimensions and other resource information
- Be based on children with disabilities who utilize a variety of assistive devices
- Provide opportunity for use by children with a variety of abilities
- Support social interaction and encourage integration
- Create challenges, not barriers
- Maintain safety consistent with ASTM requirements
- Be reasonable in terms of cost relative to benefit
- Be based on independent use as much as possible
- Address access for parents and caregivers
- Provide access to elevated structures (additional ground-level accessible play components may be required, depending on the vertical access provided to elevated structures)
- Provide advisory information in an understandable format to assist designers, operators and owners to effectively incorporate access into their designs