FREE Coaching Students with Disabilities

Service Description

A sit-down (or snacking!) discussion on how to make your circus space and coaching work for folks with physical disabilities! We'll work from the ground up talking about equipment and gym infrastructure needs to support the use of wheelchairs, canes, orthotics, and other mobility aids; best apparatuses and progressions to help students feel successful and challenged; and emotional safety/combatting able-ism in the gym. This workshop is going to feature knowledge shared between coaches among SANCA's Every Body's Circus program (started in 2004 by Jo Montgomery ARNP) and graduates of the Occupational Therapy program of the University of Washington, who's students have made SANCA a field site for their capstone project for the past two years. We will focus on serving folks with hemiparesis, limb differences, and similar disabilities.