Introduction: The purpose of this research is to identify the restrictions to the participation of blinded and visually impaired participants in dormitory of Tehran University in sports activities.
Research method: The research method is a descriptive survey. The statistical population includes the blinded and visually impaired students of dormitory of Tehran University (N=23), which of 15 people (8 boys and 7 girls) participated in this questionnaire.The information gathering tool was the questionnaire of restrictions of participation in sports activities.
The reliability rate for this questionnaire was reported in Mehdizadeh et al.'s research (2012) using Cronbach's alpha of 0.953, which indicates an acceptable reliability coefficient of the mentioned scale. This questionnaire has 58 questions and 5 subscales. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics methods were used and SPSS version 26 software was used
Findings :The results showed that psychological factors, organizational restrictions, intrapersonal factors, lack of social support, environmental factors, and time limitation cause the greatest amount of restrictions to participation in sports activities among girls with visual impairment living in Tehran University dormitory , respectively.
And the factors of organizational restrictions, environmental factors, lack of social support, time limitation, intrapersonal and psychological factors have been the most causes of restrictions of the participation of visually impaired and blinded boys in sports activities, respectively.Conclusion: According to the obtained data, the most important factor preventing the participation of blind and visually impaired disabled people in Tehran University dormitories is organizational factors and lack of scheduling for holding special classes for the use of visually impaired students.