We found very few authors analyzing the topic of socialization and participation in sports activities of wheelchair basketball-players. Research has been performed about quantitive and qualitative data of wheelchair basketball-players, the specifications of the game, players’ possibilities of improving the skills of movement and the game itself depending on the degree of disability. The activity of wheelchair basketball has been investigated, which shows the possibilities of players and the whole team to aim for the better results, to improve the overall qualification of all players and the chances for socialization participating in wheelchair basketball activities. But the research on the disabled with lower and higher level of disability, the features of their socialization and participation in wheelchair basketball activities are not abundant. Socialization peculiarities are the possibilities to socialize according to certain life aspects: life in a family, employment, movement, physical ability and activeness. Majority of authors investigate the problems of wheelchair basketball though actual peculiarities of lower and higher level of disability of wheelchair basketball-players who have socialized in their environment are not evidently described. The aim of the paper is to determine and evaluate the singularities of socialization and participation in sports activities of wheelchair basketball-players. The following tasks are solved while attaining and implementing the aim... [to full text]