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. Study was conducted in 15 probands with different types of cerebral palsy and autism. Study had pretest and posttest design with a two-month intensive training session with swimming Halliwick concept. Since we have worked with a homogeneous group of clients probands were divided into three groups according to the type of diagnosis (quadruparetic form of cerebral palsy, diparetic form of cerebral palsy and autism) and after a two-month course we evaluated the changes of swimming skills through WOTA test.
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