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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Swim Whisperers is On the Road
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 in Orlando, and the World Aquatic Babies & Children Network conference in Clearwater Beach.
USSSA and WABC are both great organizations that share Angelfish Therapy’s mission to help children of all ages, ability levels, and learning styles become confident and independent swimmers. When we first designed our Swim Whisperers program, we recognized that it would be impossible for us to personally teach every child in the world who experiences issues with traditional swim instruction methods how to swim. That’s why we’ve put together a video product aimed at swim instructors, parents, swim school directors, PE teachers, fitness instructors, and anybody else who deals with children who have issues that might physically or psychologically impede the process of learning to swim.
We’re putting the finishing touches on this video product now, and it will be available in November.
Our hope is that by presenting the innovative 14 step Swim Whisperers training method to the many swim instructors and swim schools who will be attending the two conferences in Florida this week, Cindy and Ailene will not only create awareness of the unique challenges some children face when learning to swim, but also give instructors the tools they need to improve swim competency and swim safety for children of all ability levels worldwide.
Stay tuned to the website or sign up for our newsletter to be alerted when the new video product is available.
Introducing Swim Whisperers
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 basic swim skills.
SWIM WHISPERERS is Angelfish Therapy’s swim instruction program aimed at all kinds of children, but particularly those who might experience limited or no success learning to swim through traditional methods. In short, the goal of Swim Whisperers is to turn any child into a confident and independent swimmer, no matter what their situation or condition is.
This new program is currently available in Stamford CT, Wilton CT, Danbury CT, and Manhattan.
CLICK HERE to learn more, and get your child swimming independently sooner than you think.
Splashingly Yours,
Ailene & Cindy
It’s Time To Schedule Your Fall Aquatic Therapy Sessions!
It’s official. The summer is over and the new school year is upon us. That means it’s time for all of you parents out there to schedule your fall therapy sessions. As you know by now, aquatic therapy does wonders for helping children remain focused, supporting their land-based therapy initiatives, and creating a level of arousal that allows them to participate in school and family activities throughout the day. In short, it helps them become a splashing success!
Angelfish therapists can be found in the pools working with children almost every day of the week this fall, from morning to night! CLICK HERE to see the days and times that we currently have therapist coverage for each of the nine locations you’ll find us at — in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. If you haven’t already, please contact us to check on time availability, to make specific arrangements with a therapist, or to let us know if you need to make scheduling arrangements for days/times that aren’t on the list.
2011 Camp Angelfish Recap
Our 8th year of Camp Angelfish was more intimate than we’ve seen in the past, with a smaller group of campers this year (due to scheduling issues). There were a lot of new campers from Connecticut and Massachusetts who had the opportunity to try a sleep-away camp experience for the first time. As usual, we all enjoyed fishing, tubing, kayaking, canoeing, arts and crafts, live entertainment, aqua glide, Bingo, and much more.
Held at the beautiful facilities of Lake Winnipesaukee, Camp Angelfish lasted 6 days and 5 nights. Children got to sleep in cabins and experience a typical sleep-away camp (with assistance) and be as independent as possible.
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2011 Camp Mighty Mind Recap & Slideshow
Our second year of Campy Mighty Mind was a huge success, with 23 children participating in this 3-week intensive therapeutic, movement-oriented camp held at St. Paul’s Church in Darien CT.
The therapeutic “brain-based” program we ran in the morning consisted of activities designed to improve reflex integration, core strength, eye-hand coordination, balance, and vestibular function. This included games that incorporated rhythm and timing, bilateral coordination, and stopping/starting the body.
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