Category: Adapted Swimming
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CHSAA Agrees to New Rules Improving Access for Athletes With Disabilities | 9NEWS
After a swimmer filed a lawsuit when he was disqualified from the state championships, CHSAA is changing some rules to better protect athletes with disabilities.
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Their Swim Lessons Come With a Sign Language Interpreter | CBC News
A pilot program in Edmonton is offering accessible swim lessons to children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The program pairs a swim instructor with an American Sign Language interpreter who is on hand to translate lessons in the pool.
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Paying It Forward: Single Mum With Dyslexic Boys Teaches Special-Needs Kids to Swim | The Straits Times
After Aine Wong enrolled her two dyslexic sons in swimming lessons, she was dismayed at how they were treated. This led her to start her own swimming classes for children with special needs.
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Teen Swimmer Who Had Foot Amputated Makes School History | ABC 7 Chicago
When Naperville North Swimmer Reese Navarro tried out for the swim team, she didn’t know she would be making school history. “I just love the feeling of being able to glide through the water,” she said. The freshman is the first swimmer at the school to compete in the athletes with disabilities swimming events. Now…
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Para-Swimmer Lifts the Profile of Swimmers With an Intellectual Impairment (Being Me: Bailey Conlon) | Attitude
Growing up on the spectrum and with an intellectual impairment, Bailey Conlon felt like he was living in a world that wasn’t quite made for him, a world where he didn’t belong. Then he found swimming, and with it, he found his place, his purpose, his tribe – he feels he belongs. Now, with the…