Project Result 1
The aim of this training module:
This intellectual output resulted in a 148-page module. It is aimed to equip coaches of special athletes with basic skills in special education and family support and to ensure that federations have reliable resources for coach training on this subject.
The content of the training module is the following:
- Aspects of coaching special athletes
- Understanding the training needs of coaches of special athletes
- Basic Characteristics of special athletes
- Special Athletes’ Sports Differences
- Health management of special athletes
- Family psychology perception
- Collaboration processes with the family in non-sport activities
- Maintaining communication and coordination with families of special athletes
- Planning home-schooling activities (sports supportive activities) for the family members
- Monitoring the progress of training and explaining to the family members
- Supporting families with special athletes for organizing training routine
- Developing families’ mental health and building communities among families of special athletes
Project Result 2
Framework Program to Families of ID Athletes
With this output, it is aimed to equip the families of special athletes with the minimum skills to support their children’s sports careers, to strengthen the mental health of families as well as their children, to provide a standard family education program to participating federations and to increase their competencies in cooperation with coaches.
Framework program:
Handbook for parents of athletes
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Influence that sports activities have on persons with ID
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Adequate sports activities for all
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Cooperation with coach (club, federation)
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Dealing with potential problems athletes can meet (lack of motivation, maladaptive behavior…)
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Gaining help from sport’s professionals, organizations and federations
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System of competing athletes with ID in different country
