The impact of the Halliwick concept to develop swimming skills in children with cerebral palsy and autism Cover Image

Vliv Halliwickova konceptu na rozvoj plaveckých dovedností u dětí s mozkovou obrnou a autismem
The impact of the Halliwick concept to develop swimming skills in children with cerebral palsy and autism

Author(s): Martin Kudláček, Tereza Vaščáková
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sports Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Motor skills; Halliwick concept; cerebral palsy; autism; swimming training; swimming skills; WOTA;

Summary/Abstract: Stoking post describes how to use Halliwick concept in swimming training. Swimming is for clients diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP) and autism, one of the best physical activities. For clients with special needs but requires only changing the activity but the approach instructors. One of the ways that fully respect these requirements is Halliwick concept of swimming lessons. Motor competence is one of the important indicators of personality development, has a social dimension. The term motor skills with noise continuum: analysis and description of the state - the adoption of measures to modification and improvement (Válková, 2010) to evaluate the results of the use of the test swimming skills (hereinafter WOTA - Water orientation test (Tirosh, Katz-Leurer & Getz, 2008). The present results represent a pilot study.

  • Issue Year: 8/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 59-68
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Czech