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FA Coaching Disabled Footballers

The Coaching Disabled Footballers course is designed to give football coaches and teachers 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. All candidates need to be a qualified Level 1 Coach.

  • 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.

Next course:

  • Saturday 23rd January 2010
  • Sittingbourne (venue to be confirmed)
  • 10am - 4pm
  • Cost £20 returnable deposit (Please make cheque payable to Kent FA Ltd.)

For further information and to enrol on the course please contact Stephanie Gadd at stephanie.gadd@kentfa.com.