I have posted previously about my experience coaching with neurodivergent players, so I was very interested to read Dr Josephine Perry‘s ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success.
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Coaching neurodivergent players…and how it just might be a better way to coach, full stop.
A learning week!
Neurodiversity training from Headstuff ADHD Therapy, through one of my “zero hours contract” workplaces.
An online webinar in the always interesting Myths of Sport Coaching webinar series (hosted on YouTube by Sequoia Books), on the proactive role of sports psychology.
And more reading, away from the functional “what to coach” and towards the more productive, much more interesting “how to work with people”.
And out of this has emerged a series of ideas on how to better support players with ADHD and autism.
But as I re-read the list of accommodations and adjustments, it became very apparent that what I had written down could be profitably applied to most coaching activities.
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