Disability Sports Australia
About the Host
Disability Sports Australia (DSA) is a national charity dedicated to increasing grassroots sport participation for people with disability.
We are an Australian Sports Commission-recognised National Sporting Organisation for people with disability, and a founding member of Paralympics Australia.
In Australia, one in five Australians, more than five million people, live with disability. Only one in four play sport weekly.
High costs, inaccessible facilities and limited programs continue to exclude too many from the physical, social and mental benefits of participation.
Disability Sports Australia grew from some of Australia’s earliest national disability sport movements.
These organisations governed competitions, coordinated national championships and supported athletes to represent Australia internationally.
They were founding members of Paralympics Australia.
In 2003, three national disability sport organisations merged, and in 2013 those movements unified under one national identity as Disability Sports Australia.
Today we work across all disability and all sport.