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Coaching Disabled Footballers

The Coaching Disabled Footballers course is designed to give football coaches and teacher’s ideas and practices for the inclusion of disabled players in football sessions within mainstream or impairment specific sessions.

The course is six hours and covers both theory and practical elements, by the end of the workshop each participant should be able to met the following outcomes:

• Apply and extend your existing coaching skills and experience, meet the needs of players with a range of impairments.

• Establish basic communication skills for coaching disabled footballers.

• Use appropriate terminology

• Identify appropriate safety and medical considerations.

• Plan a wide range of coaching sessions for disabled footballers.

• Using the Inclusion Spectrum, plan your coaching sessions to include disabled players or provide alternative appropriate opportunities.

• Understand the player pathways available for disabled players including the appropriate structure for competition.

Pre-requisites
The course has open access, and is available to any person who wants to improve their knowledge of working with players with a disability.

 

For details on the next course, please contact Adam Panter - Adam.Panter@WestmorlandFA.com or telephone 01539 730946