Communicatıon skill levels of trainers according to the perception of B2-B3 visually impaired athletes

Abstract

Communicationis a powerful tool for the trainer.And the trainers' tool is communication.A good trainermust have goodcommunication skills.The trainers havinggood communication skills are successful.The proposeof this researchis to evaluatethe effects of different variables(factors)on thetrainers’communication skill levels, according to the perceptions of visually impaired athletes.39 male, 59 female, totally 98 visually impairedathletes from sportclubs in different provinces participated in the study voluntarily.The trainercommunication skill scale, developed by Yilmaz in 2008, isa fivepoint Likert type-scaleincludes48 items in total and the items of it are expressed as never, sometimes, very little, quite a lot, always.The total Cronbach-Alpha of the trainercommunication skill scale was found to be 0.973.In this study, inwhich trainercommunication skills were analyzed, SPSS 22.00 Programwas used, which is used in quantitative research methods.In the study, T test and One Way Variance Analysis (One-Way ANOVA)were used for mean, standard deviation, frequency, independent samples.No significant difference was detectedin the communication skills of the trainersaccording to the variables gender, disabilitystatus, sports branch, visual level, year of doing sports, and the year of working with the trainer (p> 0.05).In conclustion, as a findingof the study, it isobserved that the communication skills of the trainers affected all the characteristics of the visually impaired athletes taken placein the training process.Communication is an extremely important and effective tool for visually impaired individuals, as they are visually impaired.Working with a trainer with good communication skills for visually impaired athletes will lead them to success.Communication is their nonexistent eye.They can easilyreach the information they needby communicating.Through the communication, their lives getfacilitated and they become socializedby entering the society.Since their communication is good, their persuasion power is high.Again, because of their good communication, their education level is high.They can seek their rights and are not dependent on anyone.Thanks to communication, they are free.They have represented our country in the paralympics in varioussports branches and have been successful.Because of their good communication,they have made their existence accepted in the society.In the study we conducted, notsignificant difference was found between the variables because their expectations or emotional thoughts were the same.