DepEd: Training starts for coaches for differently-abled athletes

Education and sports officials started over the weekend a training for coaches for differently abled athletes, the Department of Education said.

 

The DepEd said it is undertaking the training with the Philippine Sports Association for the Differently-Abled National Paralympics Committee of the Philippines.

 

“These athletes are equally capable and deserving of all the state support they need,” DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro said.

 

Luistro added the training seminar also aims to establish a pool of coaches, trainors, technical officials and classifiers who will "help differently-abled athletes in all levels of competition."

 

A news release by the DepEd issued Sunday cited DepEd Memo no. 159 providing for the training of trainors, technical and classification seminars for the differently-abled persons.

 

Training sked

 

The DepEd said the training started August 30 until September 1 in Cagayan de Oro City for the Mindanao leg.

 

A Visayas leg will be held from September 20 to 22 in Tacloban, and the Luzon leg from October 11 to 13 in Baguio City.

 

Luistro said the seminars aim to boost public awareness on the government’s sports program for differently-abled athletes from the grassroots up to the national level.

 

Three components

 

The training-seminar has three components: training of trainors and coaches; technical and classification seminars; and talent identification.

 

"Participants of the Talent Identification in athletics, swimming, table tennis, goalball, futsal, and boccia are orthopedically-handicapped and visually-impaired athletes. Their training will serve as a basis for the selection of the members of the Philippine team for future international competitions," the DepEd said.  — ELR, GMA News