INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN THE PSYCHIC AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTALLY DISABLED SPORTSMEN

Special Sport Olympics România is a non-governmental organization which wants to make a scholar, social and profesional integration by sport of the children with disabilities. This result could obtain by developing the physical and physical particularities at children with special needs (such as: their health, cognitive, emotional and volitive processes, their entire personality). The most important category of children, which is addressed Special Sport Olympics România is represented by menthal deficiency and the sport which is the most frequent practice is athletism. In this study, the principal aims are to identify the factors which transform a mental disorder child into a very good sportsman, the way in which sport can improve the quality of life for these persons and the most effective curriculum for scholar of the pupils with menthal disability. The research took place in 2008, at local and national leg of Special Sport Olympics România's competition and the used method are observation, applying scale and questionary of personality and IQ tests. The results which are obtained prove that pupils which practice sport are more sociable, comunicative, have superior scholar results and they can integrate themselves in the society much better.