Specialty Groups – Children
Children with a Disability
Aims
- To allow the disabled child the wonderful feeling of free movement.
- To offer the disabled person the opportunity to be equal with their peers through swimming.
- To offer the benefits of swimming to children who cannot communicate. It is felt that the water acts as a gentle massage which children find relaxing and others find stimulating.
- To stimulate the brain by moving in the water such as by dog paddling as this works both sides of the brain.
- To build strength with no resistance.
- To improve general fitness thus assisting in the prevention of some childhood illnesses.
Teaching Children with Asthma
Aims
- To offer the child who suffers from Asthma the opportunity to undertake swimming lessons that have been modified to assist them to develop at their own rate and within their capabilities.
- To improve the child’s general fitness.
- To assist the child with Asthma to learn a life skill for recreation and water safety.
- To give the child with Asthma the opportunity to participate on equal standing with their peers.
- To help the child learn controlled breathing which may assist in an Asthma attack.
- To improve lung capacity of the child with Asthma.