Training

There are numerous courses to improve your awareness and understanding of disabilities and sports.

These courses cover a range of different areas from basic understanding through to specific disabilities and specific sport courses.

below is a selection of courses that are run and organised throughout the country to assist in the development of disability sport.

Coaching Disabled Performers

Typhoo Sports For All

Learning Disability & Sports Equity

TOP Sportability

EFDS Including Disabled Pupils in Mainstream Education & Special School PE

Coaching Disabled Performers

Develop your own coaching knowledge and skills to coach disabled players through inclusive and separate coaching sessions. Discover new ways to adapt equipment and identify appropriate safety and medical considerations to meet your players' needs.

This workshop will help you, the coach to:

Explain when integration and segregation might be most appropriate
Identify appropriate safety and medical considerations
Review and extend your knowledge of how to adapt your coaching to the specific needs of disabled performers
Design and monitor a programme for a disabled player taking part in their sport
Direct players to appropriate structures for competition and further coaching

Delivered by: An accredited Sports Coach UK tutor

Course resources:

Comprehensive resource pack

Certificate of attendance:

Will be issued after the course

To book on the course contact:

Kam Webster

Education & Training Officer

Tel: 01785 619695

E-mail: kwebster@staffordbc.gov.uk

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Disability Inclusion Training

Are you a sports coach delivering regular coaching sessions? Are you committed to providing equal opportunities in sports coaching and hold a:

National Governing Body Level 1 coaching qualification and are working towards a UKCC level 2qualification?
Level 2 Sports Leaders UK qualification and would like to progress to level 3?

Then the Disability Inclusion Training Course will give you the skills to include disabled people in your coaching sessions.

The six hour theory and practical course is delivered in a classroom and sports hall.

Delegates will:

Learn the theory behind modern disability sport
Experience an opportunity to participate in new activities
Develop their ability to adapt games and activities to include all ability groups.

Theory Module includes:

Perceptions and experiences
Disability awareness
Legislation & guidance
Barriers and potential solutions to participation
An introduction to the Inclusion Spectrum
Where to go for further support and opportunities.

Practical Module covers:

The principles of the STEPS (Space,Task, Equipment, People, Speed)
How to adapt activities implementing the principles of the Inclusion Spectrum
How to create a strategy for the inclusion of all disabled people in sporting activity whatever their ability level
How to develop fun warm up activities, games and specific sports ideas to ensure coaching methods and delivery style provide maximum participation from all ability levels.

Delivered by:

An accredited EFDS tutor

Course resources:

Comprehensive resource pack

Course fee:

The course is sponsored by Typhoo Tea Limited. Delegates must commit to deliver three hours voluntary coaching for disabled people.

Certificate of attendance:

Will be issued on proof of delivery of voluntary coaching.

To book on the course contact:

Kam Webster

Education & Training Officer

Tel: 01785 619695

E-mail: kwebster@staffordbc.gov.uk

Learning Disability & Sports Equity

Mencap Sport and Mencap Personal Achievement Training have launched a new course for coaches, teachers, SSCO's, sports development officers, club volunteers and sports managers to help ensure that your club or service is fully accessible and inclusive to people with a learning disability.

The 4 hour course looks at:

™ Learning disability awareness

™ Understanding learning disability

™ Classification in learning disability sport

™ Barriers in sport

™ Ideas for coaching and adaptation

™ Accessible communication

Delegates receive a resource pack, as well as guidance on where to find further information on pathways in sport for people with a learning disability.

"The training was very interactive, I thoroughly enjoyed the day. Visual aids and exercises werereally useful and definitely made me rethink how I communicate myself with others."

Mencap Personal Achievement Training run a series of professional courses on a wide

range of issues to help organisations meet the requirements of the disability discrimination act.

Mencap Sport is the recognised governing body for learning disability sport in England

and works with governing bodies and other sports organisations to develop participation and the pathways to national and international competition.

For further information,

visit: www.mencap.org.uk/sport

email us: sport@mencap.org.uk

or call us: 01924 234 912

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EFDS Including Disabled Pupils in Mainstream Education & Special School PE

A practical six hour training course which ensures pupils with specialeducational needs, learning difficulties and physical or sensory impairments can enjoy a positive PE and games experience.

Aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, learning support assistants, coaches, SENCOs, adults other than teachers and any others involved in delivering PE and school sport.

On completion of the course, candidates will:

Be more confident about including young disabled people in curriculum, OSHL and community settings.
Learn new practical skills and strategies to enhance their delivery of PE and sport to include young disabled people and their nondisabled peers.

A practical course delivered in a sports hall

Understand the Inclusion Spectrum and know how to utilise it to create a positive learning environment.
Be able to apply and interpret the four strands of the PE National Curriculum to complement inclusive delivery.
Receive guidance on how to monitor and evaluate levels and quality of inclusion.
Be aware of current issues and opportunities for young disabled people in sport.
Receive information on further Continuous Professional Development opportunities and useful links.

Course Modules

The day consists of a three hour core module followed by a three hour games module, focusing on individual key stage requirements.

The core module

introduces the Inclusion Spectrum as a strategy for the inclusion of a wider range of young people in PE and school sport.

It uses examples from gym, athletics and games to explore practical inclusion concepts.

The games module

concentrates on the games element of the national curriculum and develops ideas explored in the core module. It introduces disability sport related games as well as ways of including more young people in traditional games.

Key Stages

We offer modules tailored for Key Stage 1 and 2 only, Key Stage 3 and 4 only or a combination of all 4 Key Stages. This can be discussed at the time of booking.

Delivered by:

An accredited EFDS tutor in a Sports Hall.

Course resources:

Comprehensive resource packs, including sample schemes of work, are available for each

delegate priced £20 per pack.

Candidate numbers:

Minimum 8 and maximum 24 per course.

Certificates of attendance:

Issuedupon completion of the course.

Course Cost:

£450 per course, plus tutor expenses and resource packs.

To book a course contact:

Debbie Snelson

Tel: 0161 247 5294

Fax: 0161 247 6895

Minicom: 0161 247 5644

E-mail: inclusivetraining@efds.co.uk

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Whizz-Kidz Wheelchair Skills Training Videos

whizz-Kidz is a charity that supports disabled children. It has various sections from providing wheelchairs to campaigning to Governement to Youth Clubs and wheelchair skills training.

To make their wheelchair skills training more accessible and to encourage more people to attend sessions, Whizz Kidz has developed a series of videos. These videos introduce children to the different aspects of the training.

All of the videos are shown below or you can visit their website at: www.kidz-unlimited.org.uk/