For children with ADHD, swimming can be a healthy outlet for energy and a way to boost focus and coordination. The AAP recommends that all children aged 1 and older should learn to swim as an ...

Swim Life Northern Kentucky is launching four scholarships in Joshua’s name for children with autism to learn these skills. “I want people to understand how important it is and that you don ...

Princess Charlene of Monaco has called for swimming to be recognised as a basic right for all children, warning that cost ...

"When we look at studies, we find that 80-90% of kids are going to pools; 40-60% of these kids, depending on their ethnic background, actually have swim lessons and know how to swim," Vavilala said.

Ask any parent: learning to swim is important, despite the frustrations of those first lessons. And when a child has special needs, large-group lessons in a loud, busy pool simply doesn’t work.

Learning to swim is a life saving skill, and I cannot say that enough because parents put their Children in all different types of sports. They spend a lot of money," she said.

Our middle schools have pools. Enough kids swim in summer to have a competitive league comprising the five Pointes and St. Clair Shores. Bottom line: Everyone swims, or has the opportunity to learn.

In a survey from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, fewer parents who identified as Latino and Black reported comfort with their own swimming skills—less than 25 percent and 28 percent ...

While children are more likely to drown in bathtubs or swimming pools, adults often drown in natural bodies of water such as ...

When Hailey Arthur took her seven-year-old daughter Zoey to the Kensington Community Centre pool in East Vancouver last month ...