Hello Aisha, I recently learned swimming and I did enjoy it and now, I can swim independently. Certainly, we don't need any special techniques but I want to share few important points for your consideration. (1) If you are planning to learn swimming in a group setting i.e., along with some sighted folks, keep the instructor inform your visual challenge and have him / her to give you some extra attention while you executing the steps taught by them. As Bhavani Mam has pointed out, we can do some fundamental steps i.e., strokes and kicks just with the help of our general sense and listening others but after learning floating. (2) Generally, there are lots of things to observe and immitate and the instructors must be patient enough to teach us using least-to-most prompting techniques. Least-to-most prompt in the sense, first through verbal instruction. If it didn't work, you can ask him/ her to do it first and touch and feel like how he / she keep his legs, kicking by using his / her feet etc. Even if it didn't work, then we can allow instructors to touch us and teach. At the beginner level, we can learn in a group setting and it will certainly allow you to swim independently in the shallow pool with 5 ft. If you want to move to advance level, i.e., starting from water treading techniques to butterfly strokes, egg beeters etc, I would encourage you to have a private tutor because it is all about observation and immitation. If you want to get a sense of what it looks like learning through observation and immitation, watch few swimming instructions in youtube by typing water treading, egg beeters etc. Goodluck and enjoy learning swimming.
Thank You. Sathiyaprakash. On 10/11/10, aisha sahani <mailtoaishasah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > As you know that I’m not much aware about blind and visually impaired > people and thingss designed specifically for them, I’ve been trying > to explore how does a blind person swim? > > Yeah, I made up my mind to learn swimming, and I have hope that its > possible for me, even after being a 100 percent blind. > > Can you suggest how should I go about it? > > Is there any specific technique, tip, device or even institute which > can help me learning swimming? > > your responses on this will be appreciated. > > > Aisha sahani. > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
