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 UCoach 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.

UCoach is one of the UK’s largest providers of Assistant (Level 1), Instructor (Level 2) and Coach (Level 3) tennis coaching courses. We have been an LTA Coach Development Centre since 2009 and have trained over 10,000 coaches. We are proud of our reputation as a leading coach qualification deliverer and the coaches we have trained, many of whom choose to stay with us for all their qualifications. 

Our philosophy is in our strapline “It’s all about you.” We take a holistic approach to learning where all coaches are valued as individuals and encouraged to reach their full potential in their own timeframe. We reach out to anyone with a desire to coach. The range of coaches includes young coaching assistants, schoolteachers and leaders of clubs, retired tour players and experienced performance coaches, all with one aim, to develop their tennis coaching skills. We encourage all our partners to be actively involved in our coach education programme and to provide feedback to ensure we maintain a high quality of delivery. 

As well as LTA qualifications at Assistant, Instructor and Coach, UCoach delivers LTA and bespoke CPD courses. Our bespoke courses include First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Safeguarding and courses relevant to growing a coaching business as well as Mentoring and Skill Acquisition.  

For further information, please visit our website or contact us at administration@ucoach.org.uk.