Start Date
17-6-2025 5:00 PM
End Date
17-6-2025 6:30 PM
Abstract
Abstract ISAPA 2025
Title: IPEPAS Inclusive Aquatics Practical for Practitioners
According to the World Health Organisation there are currently 1.3 billion people with disabilities in the world. The Irish Sports Monitor report in 2023 found that aquatics was one of the most popular physical activities for people with disabilities. The purpose of this practical/CPD is to provide education and training skills to teachers, coaches, tutors, aqua professionals, paraprofessionals and volunteers. It will offer attendees practical tools and knowledge they can apply in their own work, creating new opportunities for them to thrive in their work as inclusive aquatics practitioners. It will ensure they provide quality education in aquatics that benefits the health and well-being of the children and adults they provide aquatic programmes to. They will have the potential to provide an inclusive and safe working environment in their practices. Having completed the practical will ensure participants have a positive attitude towards working with people with disabilities in an aquatic environment. Using the new skills gained from this practical CPD in their practice will reduce inequalities and enhance the quality of life of the participants they work with creating new opportunities for people with disabilities to thrive.
The practical CPD will include education on providing supports in the water where required for aquatics sessions when working with people with disabilities. In this active in water practical participants will learn to provide supports in the water and develop skills to deliver inclusive programmes that will enhance the core aquatics skills of the participants they work with to ensure they have opportunities to thrive.
Practitioners will have gained the skills and quality education required to deliver inclusive aquatic programmes to people with disabilities to ensure people with disabilities have new opportunities to thrive benefitting their health and well - being and quality of life.
References:
Irish sports monitor 2023 [online] Available at sportireland.ie/sites/default/files/media/document2025-05/ism%202023%20annual%20report-0.pdf [accessed November 13th 2024]
World Health Organisation,2023, Disability,[online] available at: who.int/news-room/fact-sheet/detail/disability-and-health [accessed November 14th 2024]
Recommended Citation
Sayers, Eileen, "IPEPAS Inclusive Aquatics Practical for Practitioners" (2025). International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity and International Symposium on Physical Activity and Visual Impairment and Deafblindness. 80.
https://sword.mtu.ie/isapa/2025/day2/80
IPEPAS Inclusive Aquatics Practical for Practitioners
Abstract ISAPA 2025
Title: IPEPAS Inclusive Aquatics Practical for Practitioners
According to the World Health Organisation there are currently 1.3 billion people with disabilities in the world. The Irish Sports Monitor report in 2023 found that aquatics was one of the most popular physical activities for people with disabilities. The purpose of this practical/CPD is to provide education and training skills to teachers, coaches, tutors, aqua professionals, paraprofessionals and volunteers. It will offer attendees practical tools and knowledge they can apply in their own work, creating new opportunities for them to thrive in their work as inclusive aquatics practitioners. It will ensure they provide quality education in aquatics that benefits the health and well-being of the children and adults they provide aquatic programmes to. They will have the potential to provide an inclusive and safe working environment in their practices. Having completed the practical will ensure participants have a positive attitude towards working with people with disabilities in an aquatic environment. Using the new skills gained from this practical CPD in their practice will reduce inequalities and enhance the quality of life of the participants they work with creating new opportunities for people with disabilities to thrive.
The practical CPD will include education on providing supports in the water where required for aquatics sessions when working with people with disabilities. In this active in water practical participants will learn to provide supports in the water and develop skills to deliver inclusive programmes that will enhance the core aquatics skills of the participants they work with to ensure they have opportunities to thrive.
Practitioners will have gained the skills and quality education required to deliver inclusive aquatic programmes to people with disabilities to ensure people with disabilities have new opportunities to thrive benefitting their health and well - being and quality of life.
References:
Irish sports monitor 2023 [online] Available at sportireland.ie/sites/default/files/media/document2025-05/ism%202023%20annual%20report-0.pdf [accessed November 13th 2024]
World Health Organisation,2023, Disability,[online] available at: who.int/news-room/fact-sheet/detail/disability-and-health [accessed November 14th 2024]