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None needed Safety Considerations: Ensure the fishing rod holder is securely attached to the wheelchair or individual. Make sure the fishing line and hooks are not within reach of other participants. Be aware of surroundings and other people fishing nearby.

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Adapted Fishing

None needed Safety Considerations: Ensure the fishing rod holder is securely attached to the wheelchair or individual. Make sure the fishing line and hooks are not within reach of other participants. Be aware of surroundings and other people fishing nearby.

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Name: Abbey Wapinsky

Activity: Adapted Fishing

Sources:

Spinal Cord Injury: Returning to the Community after Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. (n.d.).
My Shepherd Connection. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from
https://www.myshepherdconnection.org/ community-access/fun-leisure/spinal-cord-
injury

Fishing. (n.d.). Move United. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from


https://www.moveunitedsport.org/sport/fishing/

Adaptive Fishing. (n.d.). Facing Disability. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from
https://facingdisability.com/resource/adaptive-fishing

Equipment: Fishing rod, harness, a rod holder made from PVC pipe, bait, hooks and fishing line.

Description: The objective of this activity is to be outdoors and to catch one or multiple fish.
Another objective of this activity is to develop or improve social skills through leisure. This
activity is best for any individual that has limited or no mobility in their hands or trouble with the
act of gripping because it focuses on different ways to adapt to fishing with any disability. It also
is focused on being social with other individuals that also enjoy fishing.

1. Harness the rod holder to where the participant is comfortable. For example, the
wheelchair or the individual's chest or forearm.
2. Place the fishing rod into the rod holder.
3. Tie a knot on the end of the fishing line.
4. Add bait to the hook.
5. Cast the line into the water.
6. Wait for the fish to bite the bait, and reel in the fishing line.

Primary Interaction Pattern: The Primary Interaction Pattern of this activity would be aggregate.
It is aggregate because the action is directed by a person toward an object in the environment
while in the company of other persons who are also directing action toward objects in the
environment. The action is not directed toward one another, and there does not have to be
interaction between participants. The action being made by the person is toward a fish in the
environment.

Adaptation: The participants in this activity will include individuals with limited or no mobility.
For example, people with spinal cord injuries. Individuals with spinal cord injuries tend to have
trouble returning to leisure after their injury because of the adjusting to the loss of mobility is
challenging. Challenges after a spinal cord injury could be things like loss of strength, pain,
accessibility issues, self-esteem issues, perceiving attitudes of other people and many others.
This activity may help with those challenges because it is adaptable to any injury, lifestyle and
interest. An adaptation that can be used in this activity is an electric fishing reel. An electric
fishing reel assists individuals with limited or no hand function and can cast and reel a fishing
rod with one button. This will help participants feel in control of casting and reeling in their own
rod. Another adaptation that can be used in this activity is an assisted knot tyer. This tool helps
thread hooks, tie knots, and cut fishing lines. This would give the participant help with a fine
motor skill needed to tie knots and thread fishing hooks.

Participant: 21-year-old man with a C 1-8 Spinal Cord Injury

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