It is recommended that all coaches receive some training in this area to help them include people with disabilities into their coaching sessions.
How to Coach Disabled People in Sport - This 2 hour sports coach UK workshop is an introduction to this area for all coaches, providing a better understanding of how to plan and adapt sessions to include disabled participants.
Inclusive Coaching: Disability - This 3 hour sports coach UK workshop is for coaches who already have some experience of working with disabled performers and are looking to review and extend their knowledge and practice. It covers subject in greater depth equipping coaches with the knowledge and confidence to create an inclusive coaching environment for people of all abilities, understand player pathways and classifications in disability sport and includes a practical session with disabled people to put learning into practice.
Typhoo Sports for All Disability Inclusion Course - This 6-hour course is designed to give coches of all sports the ideas and inspiration to adapt their sessions to make themmore accessible for disabled participants. It is a theoretical and practical course that covers terminology, barriers to participation, legislation and guidance, and an introduction to disability sports and ways of adapting activities tomake them inclusive.
Details of courses scheduled in West Yorkshire can be found on our course calendar or alternatively coaches can login to Coaching West Yorkshire and register their interest in one of these workshops at www.coachingwy.co.uk
Sports specific Disibility courses - Some NGBs run a sport specific disability courses, which will covering similar information, but place this within the context of sport and how the activity and coaching can be adapted to be inclusive. Your sports National Governing Body should be able to provide details of courses they offer.
Your sports National Governing Body should be able to provide additional advice on how you can make your sport inclusive.
The English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) was established in September 1998 as the umbrella body responsible for co-ordinating the development of sport for disabled people in England. They have produce a detailed guide to help organisation understand the barriers to participation and how best to engage disabled people in sport.
The Federation of Disability Sports Organisations (FDSO) was formed in 1993 to create and provide sport and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Sports Coach UK have produce guidance on disability awareness to help coaches to be more inclusive in the coaching sessions that they run. they have also produce a contact sheet of other organisation that can provide support and / or advice to coaches wanting to work with people with disabilities.