Are you a swim instructor or aquatics professional having trouble teaching a child with sensory, motor, or anxiety issues how to swim? For many children, teaching swim strokes simply isn’t enough. Before you can teach the child, you need to reach the child. And to do that, you need to understand how a child experiences [...]
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Today is World Autism Awareness Day
April 2nd, 2012 
Angelfish So many of our wonderful clients, both past and present, have come to us because of an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. And they’re not alone. Last week, the CDC released findings that raised estimates about the number of children in the U.S. with autism to 1 in 88 (previously, it was estimated at 1 in [...]
Teasers for Our New Training DVDs
January 23rd, 2012 Angelfish 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 swim … Next is our Pediatric Group Therapy DVD, which walks you [...]
So Many Training Options, So Little Time
December 21st, 2011 Angelfish 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 [...]
Tell Your Friends (and Doctors and Therapists) About Swim Whisperers!
October 18th, 2011 Angelfish Ailene and Cindy are back from Florida, where they had a great time spreading the word to hundreds of swim instructors from across the world about our new Swim Whisperers™ program at the USSSA and WABC conferences. Long story short, everybody was very excited to learn about the program, and they kept the ladies insanely [...]
Tags: Swim Whisperers is On the Road
October 10th, 2011 Angelfish For those of you who usually have aquatic therapy sessions with Ailene or Cindy, you probably already know that they won’t be found in the pools in Connecticut this week. Instead, they’re down in Florida, spreading the word about our new Swim Whisperers™ program at two conferences — the United States Swim School Association conference [...]
Introducing Swim Whisperers
September 13th, 2011 Angelfish You asked, and we answered. After years of watching parents, caregivers, and swim instructors search for someone in their community who could go beyond aquatic therapy and teach their child to swim, we’ve decided to tackle it ourselves by combining our therapy experience to tease out the major sensory issues that interfere with acquisition of [...]
