This course focuses on increasing awareness of varying diver abilities, and explores adaptive teaching techniques to apply when training and diving with physically and mentally challenged divers.

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Are you a PADI Professional who wants to become more aware of individual considerations when working with people who have physical or mental challenges?

PADI Professionals have a long and successful history of working with divers with disabilities. PADI's approach to diver education is (and always has been) inclusive: Everyone who meets a course's prerequisites is welcome to enrol. The PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course builds on that foundation by enhancing the training PADI Professionals receive, and preparing them for student-centred and prescriptive approaches when adapting techniques to meet diver needs.

 

PADI Divemasters or PADI Master Freedivers who have completed EFR Primary and Secondary Care course within 24 months are eligible to take the PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course.

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The PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course focuses on increasing awareness of varying abilities, and explores adaptive teaching techniques to apply when training and diving with physically and mentally challenged divers.

We often get set in our teaching style over time, and the Adaptive Techniques Specialty course helps you see the standards in a fresh light. The course teaches how to adapt to the student, while still ensuring performance requirements are met. This will increase an instructors tools to adapt teaching styles that can be applied to all students.”

The PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course will help PADI Professionals:

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• Become more aware and mindful of individual considerations when introducing people with disabilities to diving or freediving.

• Explore adaptive techniques that can be applied while supervising and training divers or freedivers with disabilities in PADI courses and programs.

• Properly counsel and direct student divers, based on their abilities, toward PADI certification, PADI experience programs or a disabilities-dedicated diving organization for limited certification programs.

• Learn additional techniques to motivate and encourage student divers with mental and/or physical challenges.

 

The course consists of knowledge development, two confined water skill development workshops and two open water workshops. 

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Adaptive Techniques - Your Way

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Option 1 - PADI Adaptive Techniques Course - £240

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Option 2 - PADI Adaptive Techniques Course, booked with your PADI Divemaster Course - £190

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Option 3 - Book with an EFR refresher, and save £30 on the EFR refresh.

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