This course empowers you to confidently coach players with impairments by adopting a player-centred approach, focusing on individual needs and potential. Drawing from the LTA Tactical and Technical Development Frameworks, you'll learn to adapt tactics, techniques, feeding, and demonstrations to get the most out of your players. 

'How to Coach the Person and not the Disability’ was created by Louise Assioun, current Head Coach of GB’s Blind & Visually Impaired Tennis Team, and Director at LUSU Sports (experts in inclusive sport and activity). 

By the end of the course, you'll have a better understanding of: 

• Models of inclusion, including STEP principles and AIM 
• How a person’s impairment can affect how and what you coach them 
• Practical adjustments you might need to make when coaching disability tennis 
• Real stories behind players with an impairment, and how tennis has impacted their life 

This course is for anybody wanting to learn how to adapt their coaching to see greater improvement in players with an impairment, regardless of your qualification level or the number of years you’ve been coaching for. 

Reasonable adjustments are available. Please contact Leeds Beckett University at the time of booking, so that they can best support you. 

Following on from National Inclusion Week, we are offering 50% off all bookings made for the following workshops:

·      Coaching Female Players: From Physique to Technique

·      How to Coach the Person and Not the Disability

·      Physical, Tactical, and Technical Tools for Coaching Female Padel

The selected workshops are focused on creating inclusive spaces in our sport.

This exclusive offer will run from Wednesday 25th September through to Friday 13th December.

Leeds Beckett University is an approved LTA Coach Development Centre 

Our organisation offers LTA qualifications at Assistant, Instructor and Level 3. We also offer CPD courses for coaches from the LTA Official Course Menu, including Padel, Coaching Forums and County wide Coaching Days as well as Emergency First Aid at Work Courses.

Leeds Beckett University specialises in the organisation and delivery of courses in a supportive and inclusive environment. Our aim is to create an important link for individuals to successfully achieve nationally recognised qualifications and CPD to enable them to seek future voluntary/employed opportunities. 

For further information, please visit our website, or contact us at sport@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.