FA COACHING DISABLED FOOTBALLERS COURSE.
The Football Development Team would like to inform you that we are running a Coaching Disabled Footballers Course. This 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.
This is a one day course and covers both theory and practical elements. This course will be on Sunday 23rd May, 10am – 4:30pm ay Shrewsbury Sports Village.
By the end of the workshop each participant should be able to meet the following outcomes:
• Apply to 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.
• Aimed at coaches who currently work in the community who want to work with footballers with a disability, All coaches require minimum of a Level 1 coaching qualification is required along with a valid FA Safeguarding Children” certificate.