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Resource Center for Individuals with Disabilities
 
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As a golf instructor or rehabilitation therapist, you have can aggregate your experience to assist a fellow enthusiast to learn or increase his or her golf skill. The Resource Center’s goal is to provide you with information that will increase your capabilities to make the game of golf more accessible for individuals with disabilities.

If you are a golf instructor, the Resource Center has several areas of interest. First, the Resource Center has databases of programs and other instructors that are currently teaching golfers with disabilities. When reviewing this section, we encourage you to enter your own information, or knowledge of a program with which you work, into these databases, enabling us to increase the effectiveness of this site. Second, the Resource Center is a clearinghouse of teaching guides and program curriculums for instructors. By researching successful examples of teaching, you may learn how to increase the effectiveness of your instruction. This area is especially relevant if you need information regarding how to teach someone with a disability you may not be familiar with.

If you are a member of any segment of the medical community, the Resource Center encourages you to take part in helping individuals with disabilities improve their golf. Even if you don’t have an extensive background in golf yourself, your expertise in kinesiology is critical when helping a person learn to make golf swing. To assist you in providing this service, the Resource Center has a listing of programs for golfers with disabilities contact. and a database of therapists already involved with golf. They can be contacted to ask more specific questions. We encourage you to enter your information into our data source so that we are able to not only grow the size of this resource, but more importantly better serve you and all users of this site.

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