| Special Needs Teaching Strategies | | | | For things like a vision impairment, then they might have |
| If you teach a youth football team there will come a | | | | trouble seeing a white ball. So a simple change of a ball |
| second when you may have to teach a child who is | | | | to a different color may help to deal with that situation. |
| physically impaired or has some type of special needs | | | | If the kid has a hearing impairment then you will have |
| condition. As coaches, we need to get him or her | | | | to find a way of communicating with them through |
| engaged in the training as that much as we can and | | | | some sort of signals or more demonstrations before |
| help them to fit in without disrupting the rest of the | | | | the designed task is given so they can see what they |
| team or getting injured in any way. A simple | | | | want you to do. If your player has a disability so they |
| impairment can fluctuate in many ways. It can be a | | | | can not run too well because of limb problems, then |
| simple trouble of properties may recently have a lack | | | | perhaps you can have the child doing a specific job. |
| of hearing, or there may be a little loss of vision. There | | | | For example they could be the designated throw-in |
| may also be a good deal of type of loss of | | | | player, and you train them to just do that particular job. |
| movement so perhaps properties cannot run as fast | | | | They could also be asked to be the designated corner |
| as a larger amount of children. Special Needs Teaching | | | | kicker. Special Needs Teaching Strategies |
| Strategies | | | | When the kids see their role in the game, their |
| How you deal with these situations will depend on | | | | improvement will get better over the weeks of training |
| what the condition is of the child. Before you even | | | | just like the rest of the group. Having a child with |
| start with the training session, as a coach, it is best to | | | | special needs helps to enhance the rest of the team |
| have a chat with the child's parents to establish the full | | | | mates and gives them first hand experience of |
| impairment and how it affects them in their normal life | | | | developing an understanding of other team mates |
| and also the goals and aspirations of the parents. You | | | | needs and be able to be patient with them. Don't let |
| then have something to gauge how you handle the | | | | your love ones suffer anymore! Lead them out |
| situation. Remember parents may be a bit | | | | through Special Needs Teaching Strategies program |
| apprehensive themselves and maybe looking to you | | | | now! |
| for all the answers. Special Needs Teaching Strategies | | | | |