The Para Learn to Swim, One to One program encourages physical literacy development in the water through play and skill development. The overall goal is to develop the necessary skills of a high-performance athlete.
Since this program is running with a one to one ratio swimmer to instructor the program will be much more individualized for the athlete in the program. Contact Shelby Newkirk at shelby@laserswimming.ca to see if this program would be appropriate for your athlete.
The skills focused on in this program will be the following:
- Water Safety (bobs, blowing bubbles)
- Front and back floats
- Back to front, front to back rolls
- Float to stand
- Symmetrical swimming skills (dolphin kick, double arm back, sculling, etc)
The Saskatoon Lasers Swim Club follows the rules and guidelines for eligibility, as laid out by Swimming Canada, under the criteria provided by World Para Swimming. Some examples of eligible underlying health conditions:
Physical Impairments
- Amputees/Dysmelia;
- Cerebral Palsy/acquired brain injury;
- Spinal cord injury/Polio;
- Dwarfism;
- Others (Major joint restrictions, coordination restriction, limb paralysis/weakness)
Visual Impairments
- Blind
- No light perception in either eye up to light perception but unable to recognize the shape of a hand at any distance or direction.
- Visually Impaired
- From the ability to recognize shape of a hand up to a visual acuity of 2/60 and/or visual field of less than 5 degrees.
- From a visual acuity above 2/60 up to a visual acuity of 6/60 and/or a visual field of more than 5 degrees and less than 20 degrees.
Intellectual Impairments
• Typically leads to the athletes having difficulties with regards to pattern recognition, sequencing, and memory, or having a slower reaction time, which impact on sport performance in general.
A more extensive list of eligible and ineligible can be found on the Swimming Canada Classification page: https://www.swimming.ca/en/resources/para-swimming/para-swimming-classification/
Contact Para Learn to Swim Coordinator Shelby Newkirk at shelby@laserswimming.ca to discuss the program and schedule an assessment.
