Adaptive snowsport · Professional Ski Instructors of America and American Association of Snowboard Instructors
What This Qualification Covers
- The November 2024 standards describe teaching students with adaptive needs through the advanced zone in the categories assessed. They separately describe riding performance on all but the most extreme terrain and small to medium freestyle features.
- The five named adaptive categories are cognitive, visual impairment, stand-up physical diagnoses, bi-ski and mono-ski. Assessment includes student assessment, equipment and tactics, diagnoses and medications, communication, movement analysis and teaching adaptations; confirm the categories actually completed.
- This is the AASI snowboard strand. It is separate from PSIA Adaptive Alpine, from individual Adaptive Snowboard Specialist certificates and from trainer or examiner appointments.
- The national award does not establish a professional licence, immigration permission or permission to operate independently in another country.
FASS country rules
These are the active qualification conditions configured on FASS. They do not confirm that a person has met them or has permission to teach. Local professional and immigration requirements still apply.
No active FASS rule is recorded for these qualifications. This does not establish permission to teach or lack of recognition.
Training and Progression
- Full Adaptive Snowboard Level III requires the underlying Snowboard Level III award. The standards separately describe an Adaptive Snowboard Specialist 3 route from Snowboard Level II or equivalent, all five Specialist 3 modules and Snowboard Level III technical-skill outcomes; category-specific Specialist 3 requires Specialist 2 in that category.
- Check the delivering region's current entry, experience and assessment requirements. The standards assess people, teaching and technical skills together with professionalism; passing a preparation course or one assessment component is not the full certification. Current membership and continuing education are required to maintain certified status.
Check the awarding body's current syllabus for entry requirements, course dates, fees, and assessment rules.
Sources and Further Reading
- PSIA-AASI adaptive certification: pathways and specialist credentials (opens in a new tab)
- AASI Adaptive Snowboard Certification Pathways and Specialist Standards (updated November 2024) (opens in a new tab)
Official source review
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Read the official adaptive overview and its separate Adaptive Snowboard standards, internally dated November 2024. The standards distinguish guest-teaching range from instructor riding performance and named specialist modules from full certification. Do not transfer the Alpine adaptive document's terrain statements to snowboard.