Coaching Youths with Disabilities Coaching Youth Sports Coach's Concerns by Jennifer Hvozdovic Coaching Youths with Disabilities With the ever increasing popularity of participation in youth sports by both disabled and able-bodied children, we now need to look at the person who will be guiding our children, the coach. Many believe that being a coach is an easy job and can be done without much thought. I feel as though being a coach is much more than just telling the child where to stand. It entails a realm that is intense and involved.
Coaches are an important key to the success of the disabled child athlete.
Each athlete will have an individual mode of learning and it is the coach who needs to find this out. Once the mode of learning has been established the coach then must decide which teaching method would be most suitable for that athlete. After the mode and method of teaching has been decided, the coach must now determine how to apply principles of motor learning. Motor learning is how the individuals will obtain the motor skills. This includes the combination of the psychology of learning and the neurophysical domain.