- Never use a person’s disability to improve another individual’s perspective on life.
- Make sure your workout site is accessible.
- Ask ahead of time if the person will need any accommodations.
- Speak to the person the same way you would speak to a person without a disability. No need to crouch or kneel to the level of the individual if your interaction will be brief.
- Get to know your clients level of function. Just because they use a wheelchair doesn’t mean that they can’t stand or wouldn’t choose to transfer out of it.
- Offer your client choices whenever appropriate but never over adapt.