There are a range of resources you can use to make your coaching more inclusive and aid you with coaching disabled athletes.
Clubs and Coaching
A range of useful resources for clubs can be viewed through Club Hub – the resources area of our website.
- Club Factsheet – Disability Terminology
- How to include everyone – Activity Inclusion Model Guidance (PDF 180kB)
Competition and Classification
Equipment and Funding
- Information and Advice on Running Blades (PDF 330kB)
- Running Resource Guide for Amputees by Limb Power (PDF 1.8MB)
- Equipment and Funding Information and Advice on Wheelchair Racing (PDF 360kB)
- Club Guide – Seated Throws
- Protean throwing frame website
Impairment specific information
- Coaching people with hearing impairments
- Coaching people with visual impairments
- Coaching people with autism
- Coaching people with ADHD
- Coaching people with Asperger Syndrome
- Coaching manual wheelchair users
- Coaching amputees
- Coaching people with Dwarfism or restricted growth
- Coaching people with a learning disability
- Coaching people with Cerebral Palsy
- Coaching people with diabetes (PDF 340kB)
- Dementia-friendly sports guide (PDF 3.4MB)
- National Autistic Society; A Guide for Sports Coaches and Clubs
Further impairment specific information
- Club Guide – Running and Sprinting with Guides or Click here to find out more about our Find A Guide programme
- Club Factsheet – How to deliver a taster session for blind and partially sighted people
- Deaf Friendly Athletics resource (PDF 670kB)
Mental health and wellbeing
- UK Coaching animation about raising awareness of mental health and the role that coaching can play in supporting participants to maintain good mental health
- Athletics and Mental Health resource (PDF 1.4MB)
- Mind – three videos: advice and support for inclusive coaching for people with mental health problems
- Promoting Good Mental Health through Coaching infographics (PDF 1.4MB)
Courses/workshops
- Keeping Deaf and Disabled Children Safe in Sport
- National Autistic Society- Autism, Sport and Physical Activity online module
- Sports Coach UK- Inclusive Activity Programme
- Mind – Mental health awareness training for sport and physical activity
- Mental health First Aid Lite (introductory three hour mental health awareness course
- British Blind Sport e-Learning module: Coaching People with a Visual Impairment