The Children’s Hospital Sports Program (TCH HSP) provides children with physical disabilities the opportunity to participate in both winter and summer outdoor sports. The disabilities of participants can be neurologic and/or orthopaedic and typically include cerebral palsy, spina bifida, amputation, polio, traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury. Currently, about 65 children with a variety of physical disabilities participate in the winter program where they "upright" ski, sit ski, or snowboard with TCH HSP on a regular basis through the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NCSD) at Winter Park. This is the first and largest of the TCH HSP programs. Summer activities have included golf, fishing, sailing, rafting, and tennis.

The intent of TCH HSP is "to provide resources and programs for children with physical disabilities which influence their participation in community recreation activities that lead to development of a skill base for a lifetime of healthy activity." The program not only gives kids with physical disabilities a chance to have fun just like other kids, it provides the participants with tremendous therapeutic benefit that they will carry with them throughout their lives. Click here to learn more about HSP.