Aquatic Therapy

offers you

Therapeutic Intervention   ...    Water Safety    ...   Swim Instruction

Skill Development

Skill development is my goal and water my medium. The experiences I offer in Choose To Swim help to improve your child's speech, cognitive development, lung function, strength, flexibility and circulation. 

The water's buoyancy enables him to accomplish skills that may be difficult or impossible for him on land. Meanwhile, the resistance your child experiences from the water strengthens your child's muscles, increases his endurance and improves breath control. 

All this activity activates his core and thus heightens his alertness,  allowing him to perform more effectively in school. In addition, warm water and exercise creates a relaxation response so he will sleep better at night. 

Therapy makes a significant difference in his ability to thrive in any community, whether it be at school, at home, at the recreation center, or at church functions.  Present your child with aquatic skills at an early age and you present him with an tool bag filled with skills - social, emotional, physical and cognitive - that will last him a lifetime.

Fun!

Noodles, letters, fish, mats, balls, flower pots and watering cans become magical creatures and create playful challenges.

Therapy need not be boring and hard work?

In Choose to Swim... 

Children have fun while working hard. 

Children develop strength by lifting flower pots full of water and dumping it on the instructor. 

Children paddle islands across the pool and climb into a rubber canoe.

Children find that mats can be transformed into bridges, islands, tunnels and planks. 

I work with you, the parent, your child and other therapists to develop an individualized program that is both fun and beneficial to your child's social, emotional, cognitive and physical development. 

Ther-a-play!

Now you can read about how a young girl with Autism 

overcomes her fear of the water!

Surf's Up For Flynn

Teaching strategies that promote successful outcomes