WHY CHOOSE SURVIVAL SWIMMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN?
GIVE YOUR FAMILY
THE GIFT OF PEACE OF MIND
Drowning is the No. 1 cause of death in children in general for ages 1 to 4, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, drowning is also the No. 1 cause of death for children of all ages with autism spectrum disorder.
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Kids with autism face a higher risk of drowning due to the behavior known as "elopement" or a tendency to wander off, according to data from the National Library of Medicine.
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Equipping your children with fundamental survival swim skills can help save their lives! The Swim-Float-Survive Program at Life Aquatics LLC offers first-class infant survival swim lessons that have been perfected by the women who founded the Survival Swim Development Network over three decades in the industry.
Life Aquatics LLC offers compassionate understanding and experience when it comes to swimming instruction and survival swimming for neurotypical and neudivergent children. When applicable, we use neurodiverse affirming practices to teach children the necessary skills to save themselves from drowning.
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WHAT IS SURVIVAL SWIMMING?
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Survival swimming lessons teach your child the life-saving skills to survive an aquatic accident should they find themselves alone in the water. During these lessons, children are taught to surface, roll to their back to rest and get a breath, then roll back over to their stomachs to swim to the nearest exit point.
WHY SHOULD MY CHILD TAKE SURVIVAL SWIMMING?
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1. Your child may have a
false sense of security in the water
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Often, younger children who haven’t had infant swim lessons are used to their puddle jumper, floatie, or life vest. This builds a false sense of security around water, which can create dangerous situations when they don’t have that floating device—and still think they can swim.
By teaching proper survival swim technique, our program will give your child the ability to swim safely, and will teach you how to continue to grow your child’s swimming ability.
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2. Survival swim is amazing to watch.
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Infants, toddlers, and young children are transformed from being helpless in the water into confident, capable swimmers in weeks, not years.
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The added benefit of increasing self-esteem and independence in children while bringing relief and confidence to parents, not just meeting their expectations but exceeding them, brings the staff LIFE AQUATICS LLC great satisfaction.
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Our number one priority is teaching childrento save their own lives.
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3. Starting early makes a big difference.
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The longer a child waits to learn to swim, the harder it will be to learn. Sometimes, as children grow older, they can become more nervous around water. This makes it more difficult to bridge mental gaps and be confident in learning to swim.
Life Aquatics offers survival swim as young as 12 months, or when your child can walk. Pre-walkers can take advantage of our Little Splashers program that develops your child’s cognitive skills and instills confidence in them as a swimmer.
