The Impact Of The Halliwick Concept To Develop Swimming Skills In Children With Cerebral Palsy And Autism
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Stoking post describes how to use Halliwick concept in swimming training. For clients diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP) and autism, swimming is one of the best physical activities. Activity for clients with special needs only requires changing the activity and the approach of instructors. One of the ways that fully fulfils these requirements is the Halliwick concept of swimming lessons. Motor competence is one of the important indicators of personality development and has a social dimension. The term motor skills with noise continuum: analysis and description of their state - the adoption of measures to modify the improvement (Válková, 2010) and to evaluate the results of the test swimming skills (hereinafter WOTA - Water orientation test (Tirosh, Katz-Leurer & Getz, 2008). The results represent a pilot study. The study was conducted in 15 subjects with different types of cerebral palsy and autism. The study had pre-test and a post-test design with a two-month intensive training session with swimming using the Halliwick concept. Since we have worked with a homogeneous group of clients, The students were divided into three groups according to the type of diagnosis (quadruparetic form of cerebral palsy, diparetic form of cerebral palsy and autism) and after a two-month course we evaluated the changes of swimming skills through WOTA test.
Motor skills; Halliwick concept; cerebral palsy; autism; swimming training; swimming skills; WOTA
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