Welcome to Angelfish Therapy®!
Here at Angelfish, we help children with a variety of special needs, sensory issues, and motor coordination difficulties reach their full potential through fun and challenging aquatic therapy sessions, swim lessons, and even land-based therapy. We work with children individually, in small groups, in parent/child classes, and in summer camp settings to improve their motor skills and enhance their learning potential. We also educate other therapists, swim instructors, care givers, and parents about how to use the water to improve a child’s motor skills and overcome sensory issues to learn how to swim.
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Teasers for Our New Training DVDs
If you haven’t already, take a look at the teasers for our new video training products.
First up is our Swim Whisperers DVD, which shows you how to overcome the various obstacles that prevent teaching children with sensory and motor issues how to swims …
Next is our Pediatric Group Therapy DVD, which walks you through the basics of aquatic therapy, with footage from our popular parent/child Jumpstart Angelfish group classes …
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THESE DVD PRODUCTS
New 2012 Training Workshop Schedule
We’ve made some changes to the 2012 training workshop schedule. The workshops in Florida previously scheduled for February have now been moved to April.
This decision was made to cut down on the amount of travel that Cindy and Ailene need to do over the next few months. They’ll be in both California and Colorado in March, then in Florida speaking at the 1st Annual NDPA (National Drowning Prevention Alliance) International Adapted Aquatics Conference on April 30th and May 1st. So it made more sense to piggyback the workshop onto that trip.
Here’s the new Spring 2012 schedule …
- Friday & Saturday, Mar. 16th & 17th:
Colorado Springs, CO @ Donna’s Dolphins Swim School - Friday & Saturday, Apr. 27th & 28th:
St. Petersburg, FL @ Tampa Bay Turners Swimming & Gymnastics
CLICK HERE to learn more about what these workshops can offer you.
So Many Training Options, So Little Time
As the year draws to a close, we here at Angelfish Therapy are busier than ever. In addition to the time we and our therapists/instructors spend in the pools providing aquatic therapy and swim lessons for children with special needs, we’re also creating training DVDs and setting up new training workshops for 2012.
Training Workshops Coming Soon to Colorado:
Our Angelfish Training workshop weekend went so well earlier this month that we’re taking the show on the road. Early in 2012, you’ll find us teaching our Totally Treatment (aquatic therapy) and Swim Whisperers workshops in Colorado …
- Friday & Saturday, Mar. 16th & 17th:
Colorado Springs, CO @ Donna’s Dolphins Swim School
CLICK HERE to learn more about what our workshops can offer you.
All New Video Training DVDs for 2011:
If you haven’t already, visit our DVD Training page to learn more about our Swim Whisperers DVD + Study Guide, as well as our Pediatric Group Therapy DVD. These products are a great option for parents and professionals who either can’t make it to one of our workshops, or who want to have something on hand to reinforce the training they’ve already received.
CLICK HERE to learn more about what our training DVDs can offer you.
Whether you’re a swim school instructor/director, YMCA aquatics director, physical or occupational therapist, fitness professional, lifeguard, or even a parent involved with a child or children who deal with the sensory or motor difficulties — like those that affect kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD), Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, hypotonia, apraxia, development delays, and more — the innovative methods and strategies provided by these training options will give you the tools you need to make a difference!
Angelfish Training Workshops Are Filling Up Fast!
Are you a pediatric occupational, physical, or recreational therapist, speech-language pathologist, exercise physiologist, kinesiologist, or sports medicine specialist who wants to add aquatic therapy to your skill set? Are you already an aquatic therapy specialist, but want to refresh your skills or add new tools to your therapy toolbox? Are you a swim instructor or parent who finds it difficult to teach your children with sensory or motor issues how to swim?
If any of these apply to you, or even if you’re just new to aquatic therapy or swim instruction and want to jump start your current caseload with innovative techniques that will help you keep your clients happy, then our Angelfish Training workshops are for you! And we’ve got two great sessions coming to the Norwalk Marriott in December, taught by licensed professionals with more than 20 years therapy experience both in and out of the water.
On December 9th, join us for our popular Totally Treatment workshop, designed for PTs and OTs who either want to enter the world of aquatic therapy, or who want boost their adaptive aquatic skill set and take full therapeutic advantage of the buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, and vestibular stimulation offered by a pool environment.
On December 10th, for the first time ever, we’ll be offering our new Swim Whisperers workshop, designed for swim instructors, parents, swim school directors, PE teachers, fitness instructors, or anybody faced with a child or children who experience little to no success with traditional teaching methods.
Both workshops are filling up fast, so don’t wait another day to sign up!
Aquatic Therapy — It’s Relevant
Of course, we already knew that aquatic therapy was a relevant and valuable addition to the therapy regimen for children with a variety of special needs. Well, the people over at ItsRelevant.com apparently agreed, and ran this wonderful video, featuring Ailene and some friends, having fun in the water.
