Coach Education - Disability
The Tennis Foundation is working to raise the profile of and enhance disability awareness and development training to provide all qualifying coaches with a broader understanding of disability tennis.
In addition to encouraging existing coaches to expand their coaching activity to include people with disabilities, the TF and the LTA coaching team are working in conjunction with the ITF to develop coaching qualifications for those who might want to specialise in disability tennis as well as provide opportunities for those with impairments which might preclude them from undertaking the standard LTA coaching pathway.
Take a look at a diagram of how the coaching system works.
Tennis Foundation Disability Awareness Courses
We run one-day practical Disability Awareness Courses for coaches who want to develop an understanding of the practical considerations when working with people with disabilities including wheelchair, deaf, learning disabled and visually impaired tennis players and to develop the skills to successfully programme and integrate a disabled person into regular club and coaching activities.
In order to qualify for this course you will need to already be a LTA Licensed Coach. Candidates will be given a resource pack on the day and six license points are available.
Upcoming courses:
Wednesday 15 June 2011 @ Craiglockhart Tennis Centre, Edinburgh
One-day practical Disability Awareness Course, for coaches who want to develop an understanding of the practical considerations when working with people with disabilities and to develop the skills to successfully programme and integrate a disabled person into regular club and coaching activities.
- Pre requisite: LTA Licensed Coach.
- Candidates will be given resources on the day.
- 6 license points available.
- Cost £20 (introductory offer).
- 10am to 5pm, Craiglockhart Tennis Centre, Edinburgh EH14 1BZ
Friday 17th June 2011 @ Esporta Cardiff, Welsh National Tennis Centre
- Pre requisite: LTA Licensed Coach.
- Candidates will be given resources on the day.
- 6 license points available.
- Cost £50
- 9am to 4pm, National Tennis Centre, Ocean Park, Ocean Way, Cardiff, CF24 5HF
To book a place on this course, you need to do so via this link here.
If you have any queries about the course, in the first instance please email the Tennis Foundation.
For more information please log on to the coaches section on the LTA website and search for wheelchair tennis coaching or contact Angela Watson.
To learn more about delivering a tennis programme to disabled people you can click on the link below to read a case study of three clubs in Hertfordshire who got together to kick start a programme of tennis activity for disabled children.
Download 'Delivering a tennis programme to disabled people - a case study' (PDF)
You can also read our guidance document for visually impaired and blind tennis here.