The reliability of the general sporting ability (GSA) protocols to identify sports talent among persons with blind and visually-impaired in Klang valley, Malaysia

The purpose of the study is to investigate the reliability of the general sporting ability (GSA) protocols to identify sports talent among persons with blind and visually-impaired and also aimed to examine the differences in general ability among persons with blind and visually-impaired on selected general sporting ability protocols in Klang Valley, Malaysia. 77 persons with blind and visually-impaired (33 male and 44 female) from special school for the blind, Kuala Lumpur participated the study and been choose through purposive sampling. Subjects went through test-retest method of 19 general sporting ability protocols. The study was analyzed used SPSS version 19. Intra-class Correlation (ICC) had been used to test the reliability of the test-retest for each protocol. Independent t-test was used to compare the differences in general sporting ability among persons with blind and visual impaired (totally and partially blind) on general sporting ability protocols in Klang Valley, Malaysia. According to the result, ICC showed more than 0.70. So, there are a strong correlation between test and retest result. There are significant difference between blind and the visually-impaired group based on the test protocols. There are need to create several appropriate tests to identify the ability especially for the blind group.