[mblatnik]

I don’t have a kid with special needs, but I have been coaching swimming voluntarily to special needs kids for about a year and a half. The group consists primarily of kids with Down syndrome and autism. I’m curious have any of you tried using swimming as therapy? And if you had what kind of effect you noticed swimming had on your kids. The swimming group where I work  has started about 5 years ago on voluntary basis. We are using a special teaching method. Now I know I don’t live everyday with those kids but we have noticed some great effects swimming has had on them, in the terms of discipline, focus and social inclusion and interaction. Not mention that the feeling you get when the kid you have been working with for a year finally starts to swim, even it is only for a few meters is great.

[Speeds]

Hello and welcome.

I would love to have someone to teach my son.  We used to go swimming but it is so hard - he cannot do a mainstream class but can be taught in a small group with people who knowhow to handle him