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 Tennis Wales at the time of booking, so that they can best support you.
Tuesday, 29 April 2025: 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Face-to-Face)
Newport Tennis Centre
Regional Pool and Tennis Centre Newport International Sports Village Spytty Boulevard
NEWPORT
Wales South
NP19 4RB
Clubhouse
Toilets
Gymnasium
Accessible Not Wheelchair
Catering Facilities
Swimming Pool
Meeting Rooms
Wheelchair Access
Changing Rooms
Equipment Hire
Showers
EV Charging Point
Tennis Wales are the National Governing Body for tennis in Wales. We’re a not for profit organisation affiliated with the LTA and work in partnership towards a vision of ‘tennis opened up’ in Wales. In partnership with our sponsors and Sport Wales, we work collaboratively to make tennis relevant, accessible, welcoming and enjoyable.
We have created new partnerships with Cardiff Met University and Wrexham Tennis Centre which will see this new Coach Development Centre, created specifically for Wales, training and supporting hundreds of new and existing tennis coaches. The new landscape will allow for dedicated support to service the needs of the local workforce and enable closer links to deployment opportunities across the country.
Our aim is to provide a clear and transformative pathway for coaches to develop and achieve their potential.
For further information, please visit our website or contact us at coachdevelopment@tenniswales.org.uk.