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FA Coaching Disabled Footballers

Dorset FA will be running a Coaching Disabled Footballers Course. The Course is designed to provide football coaches and teachers with ideas and practices for the inclusion of disabled players in football sessions within mainstream or impairment specific sessions. The Course is for candidates over the age of 16 years, that have already achieved the 1st4sport Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Football.

The Course lasts for six hours and covers both theory and practical elements; by the end of the Course each participant should be able to meet the following outcomes:
- Apply and extend your existing coaching skills and experience to 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 structures for competition.

Courses in 2010

Poole: Saturday 17 April 2010 9.30am – 3.30pm

Dorchester: Sunday 8 August 2010 9.30am – 3.30pm 


 

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