PADI Adaptive Techniques Course

PADI Adaptive Techniques Course: Expand Your Skills, Welcome All Divers

As a PADI Professional, you have the opportunity to share the underwater world with everyone. The PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course enhances your ability to do just that, focusing on increasing awareness of varying diver abilities and exploring adaptive teaching techniques for working with individuals who have physical or mental challenges.

This course builds upon PADI's inclusive philosophy, preparing you to use a student-centered approach when adapting techniques to meet individual diver needs. 

You'll learn how to:

• Increase Awareness: Become more mindful of individual considerations when introducing people with disabilities to diving or freediving.
• Adapt Your Teaching: Explore specific adaptive techniques applicable to PADI courses and programs for supervising and training divers with disabilities.
• Counsel Appropriately: Learn how to direct student divers effectively based on their abilities, guiding them towards suitable PADI certifications, experience programs, or other specialized diving organizations.
• Motivate and Encourage: Discover additional techniques to support and encourage student divers facing mental and/or physical challenges.

The course structure includes knowledge development, two confined water skill development workshops, and two open water workshops, providing both theory and practical application.

Note: For non-professional divers interested in supporting buddies with challenges, PADI offers the related Adaptive Support Diver course.

Prerequisites:

• PADI Divemaster or PADI Master Freediver (or higher PADI Professional rating)
• Completed EFR Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) course within the past 24 months.

Enhance your professional skills and make diving more accessible. Enroll in the PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty course today!

Key Topics

• Increasing awareness of varying diver abilities
• Exploring adaptive teaching techniques for PADI courses/programs
• Student-centered and prescriptive teaching approaches
• Counseling students based on abilities
• Motivation and encouragement techniques
• Knowledge development sessions
• Two confined water skill development workshops
• Two open water workshops
• Prerequisites: PADI Divemaster or PADI Master Freediver (or higher); Current EFR Primary & Secondary Care (within 24 months)
• Outcome: Enhanced ability for PADI Professionals to train and supervise divers with physical or mental challenges.