ABSTRACT
Since we wrote the chapter for the first edition of this Handbook (Smith and Sparkes 2012), research on disability, sport and physical activity has grown considerably. Our aspirations remain modest in terms of what can covered in this second edition. This chapter does build on the first edition, though, by offering new insights in three sections. The first section is concerned with disability and sport, and focuses on recent work on parasport, social activism and sporting cyborgs. The second section looks at disability and physical activity. Our focus in this section is on recently evidenced health benefits, barriers to being active, physical activity messengers and forms of communication like infographics, behavioural change strategies, and some possible problems associated with physical activity. Having considered several challenging issues within the first two sections, the third section concludes the chapter by considering some possible future directions for research on disability, sport and physical activity.
