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People with Down syndrome are slowly and not at all familiar with the notion of leisure time. From our previous research we found out that most of the adults with Down syndrome are at home, with no rehabilitation, or educational or therapeutically services. There are some occupational / vocational centers in some cities across the country. In the urban area, the adults with DS that belong to a NGO are doing sport, dance, leisure and occupational activities from time to time. All the others and especially those liv...

Down syndrome (DS) and intellectual disabilities (ID) persons from Romania need to have leisure activities (LT) that can be a good modality to integrate them into the society. Also it can be a physical activity form that can take many enjoying form. Objectives. The purpose was to characterise the LT activities of persons with SD from Romania. Methods of research. The article brings into the attention the leisure time activities that can be the expression of being physically active of SD and ID, what kind of activi...