Inclusion Fitness is aware that there is a huge need for personal trainers to work with children and adults with SEND, and for those children and adults to access a safe and inclusive environment for exercise and physical activity.
Exercise provides a great deal of sensory input and we can work alongside professionals such as OT’s and Educational Psychologists to provide a holistic training plan ensuring that all the needs of the child or adult are met.
Our experience of working with people with SEND shows us they want to exercise and do well but there are two barriers:
1. Lack of personal trainers with the required skill set and experience training people with SEND
2. The environment, with commercial gyms being too highly stimulating and/or the environment not being accessible for people with physical disabilities.
Here at Inclusion Fitness, we can break both of these barriers. Working as a PT with SEND children and adults requires creativity and imagination; tapping into their motivators to make exercise fun and accessible. The gains we have seen working with children and adults with SEND have not just been about their physical fitness but also had a postive impact on their self-confidence and well-being.
At Inclusion Fitness we know that children and adults with SEND are unique, therefore each training programme will be tailored around the needs of the individual. We know that taking a client led approach to sessions and using our imagination to build a session around them is one of the key factors of why we see such high engagement from the clients we train. Part of our initial conversations with parents./carers or the individual before a session is finding out their passions and using them to engage them in exercise, making sessions fun. In some cases disguising exercise with play. We find taking away the demands you would get with a standard exercise session, achieves the best results!
If you would like to know more about how we can help, please contact us and we can discuss in more detail.
