Disabled
Holiday Ski Courses in Austria:
Redpoint
Adaptive Ski Holiday Programme:
Our Adaptive Programme has been introduced to provide people with a physical or learning disability the opportunity to ski. Specialized equipment and lessons with a qualified, experienced instructor can be pre-booked when making your holiday reservation. The main aim is to enable a family or group of friends to go skiing together with their disabled friend or relative, with the ultimate goal of everyone skiing together. This can be achieved by teaching the disabled person to ski independently, and/or teaching a family member to assit as a buddy and so enabling the two people to ski together independent of outside help. The level of independence achieved varies depending on the level of disability and the skiing ability of the “buddy”, so lessons for both the disabled skier and the buddy are offered. Each holiday is tailored to suit your needs, so we ask you to complete an information sheet and discuss your needs with our specialist before making your reservation. Please be honest and realistic when discussing your needs with us, give us all the details so that we can plan for your stay, as it is often not possible to change the arrangements once they have been booked. (Click
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person with a Visual Impairment can learn to ski
the same way as everyone else, but needs one on one
tuition. They will be able to ski independently with
the aid of a trained guide. |
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2-track
skiers use two skis and include the hearing impaired,
upper limb amputees, below knee amputees, people
who've had strokes or other head injuries, learning
difficulties... |
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3-track
skiers use one ski and two outriggers. The outriggers
aid stability. They typically have one functional
leg, the other being affected by polio, accident
damage, amputation... |
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4-track
skiers use two skis and two outriggers. They typically
have mobility and balance problems. These may be
as a result of Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis,
Spina Bifida, or amputation... |
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This
allows the skier to ski sitting down. Monoskis are
designed for low level paraplegics and others with
conditions affecting their legs. |
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Biskiers
are often high-level paraplegics, quadriplegics and
people with more severe impairments, who rely less
on their core stability and co-ordination than mono-skiers. |
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On
our buddy courses, your able-bodied family member
or friend will learn the skills they need to help
you ski without the assistance of an instructor,
so you can ski independently. |
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