1. 6000 Harriott Dr. Powell, Ohio 43065 info@taasc.org www.taasc.org

2. About TAASC
• Founded as part of Recreation
Unlimited in early 1990s
• 2006 – secured 15-year lease at
Scioto Jeffery Park
• 100% privately funded through
fees, donations, small grants
and Winter Sports Challenge
fund raiser
• Serves people with significant
disabilities that limit their
participation in adventure
sports
• Serve people of all ages
• Contributes to health and
wellness

3. Sailing
Veterans at Alum Creek Reservoir
Sailing is at Alum Creek Sailing Club every Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting.

4. He built our confidence
in sailing, again.
-- Accident Survivor
Small boat sailing at Twin Lakes

5. Cycling
It was hard to buy
a bike this
expensive, but
today our 7 year
old rode 5 miles
TAASC provides around the
or links people
to cycling neighborhood
equipment with a huge smile
evaluations.
These are on her face!
scheduled on
an individual
basis. Bicycles
are available
for loan.

6. •TAASC is a local chapter of
AMBUCS.
•TAASC –AMBUCS Chapter has
trained about 50 therapists and
others to conduct assessments to
find the right model AmTryke for a
person.
•In its first year, TAASC-AMBUCS has
assisted 22 children and their
families to identify funding to own
an AmTryke.

7. Twin Lakes &
O’Shaughnessy Reservoir

8. Tuesday evening lessons in June, July,
and August
Events open to people with and
without disabilities:
•Open paddling on Thursday evenings
• Kids Kayaking one Saturday a month
•Birding by Kayak in cooperation with
Columbus Audubon
Special groups are scheduled by
arrangement.
TAASC encourages community groups
to kayak on Thursday evenings Something our whole
family can do together.
About 50 events are held each season.
-- a Dublin Family

9. TAASC gave me
back my life.
- Spinal Cord Injury Survivor

10. We are extremely impressed and truly touched by
the amazing opportunities for our son and others
to experience all that life has to offer!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

11. Fishing
reduces stress
for veterans
with PTSD.

12. Alpine skiing
and snow
boarding
lessons at Mad
River
Mountain and
Snow Trails
Resort on
Saturdays
during January
and February.
Other times by
arrangement.

13. Thank you
TAASC, for
using the
proverbial foam
and duct tape
to turn our lives
with Spina
Bifida upside
down.

14. •Partnership with Greater
Columbus Rowing
Association
•Saturday from 8 AM – 10
AM at Griggs Reservoir
Boat House
•Must be 18 years of age
and able to be on the water
alone in a boat

15. TAASC is affiliated with the
US Paralympics providing
community sports to youth
with physical disabilities,
blindness and other
disabilities.
TAASC receives funding
for year round
adventure sports for
veterans with
disabilities. Disabilities
do not have to be
service-related.

16. No Boundaries!
TAASC is committed to creating
pathways to leadership for
people with disabilities.

17. Training Model
TAASC provides
individualized
assessments, skills
training, and adaptive
equipment
Family Involvement
TAASC involves the whole
family so they will know
how to support the person
with a disability to enjoy
the sport anywhere
Inclusion
TAASC is committed to
having people
with/without disabilities,
enjoying the same
activities in the same

18. Collaborations
• Training/consultation in communities
in Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia
• Columbus Ski Club
• Paddle Ohio
• Greater Columbus Rowing
Association
• Mad River Mountain and Snow Trails
• Wounded Warrior Project since 2005
• Annual grant since 1996 from
Buckeye Chapter of Paralyzed
Veterans of America
• Chiller Ice Rinks – TAASC adaptive
equipment is located at four ice rinks.
Staff are trained to assist customers
with disabilities.

19. TAASC = A leader and innovator in Adaptive
Adventure Sports
• TAASC is one of the largest affiliates
of Disabled Sports USA
• TAASC volunteers are skilled and
certified in adaptations
• TAASC owns over 100 pieces of
adaptive equipment
• Students from Ohio State University
College of Engineering (Mechanical)
and School of Occupational Therapy
create solutions through equipment
• 2009 project to enable a person with
incomplete quadriplegia to paddle a
kayak independently = 2nd PLACE in
the Honda Innovation competition
• 2010 transfer chair from wheelchair
to kayak level = 1st PLACE

20. Safety a HIGH Priority
Encouraging volunteers to secure
certification as sports and safety
instructors
Certified volunteers:
 20 Professional Ski Instructors of
America (7 with disabilities)
 7 American Canoe Association
Instructors
 1 Ohio Boater Ed Course Instructor
 20+ completed Ohio Boater Ed
course
 Sailing Captain (Basic Keelboat, Coast
Cruising, Bareboat Charter, US Sailing
Association, US Coast Guard, physical
disability)
 Multiple first responders, First Aid,
and CPR

21. • Over 350 volunteers:
board members,
instructors, equipment
managers, program
leaders, programs staff
including people with
disabilities in key
leadership and teaching
positions

22. If I can do this, I can do anything!