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Physical education classes in a swimming pool

General information

The Office for Persons with Disabilities, in cooperation with the College of the Physical Education, for a few years has been organizing physical education classes in a swimming pool for students impaired in mobility. Such classes constitute a combination of a physical activity with a rehabilitation. 
Classes are conducted with the confines of the physical education, but their character is individually adjusted to the needs and abilities of participating students.

The classes in a swimming pool are lead by a qualified coach, and each disabled person is accompanied in water by an assistant. Persons with disabilities are qualified into groups formed on the basis of type of their disability and swimming abilities. The classes take place in a big or in a small swimming pool. The building, where the classes take place, is free from architectural barriers. the Office for Persons with Disabilities provides a transport to/from the classes.

Classes in the swimming pool in an academic year 2006/2007

For students with the most serious mobility impairment, in particular persons using wheelchairs, are able to participate in the physical education classes in a swimming pool. The project of the classes has been prepared in cooperation with the College of the Physical Education, which entrusted leading of the classes to a qualified coach, who possesses an indispensable experience - Ms. Ewa Kosmol,  Msc.

Within the confines of the classes, persons with disabilities, with their assistants, take part in a comprehensive  physical education program which takes advantage of opportunities offered by the swimming pool. Students taking part in the classes are provided with transport, as well as with a help in a cloak room and in water by assistants, specially trained for these tasks. As such assistants, the Office for Persons with Disabilities, has employed students.

All persons who want to participate in the classes in the swimming pool are asked to declare their wish through filing a swimming pool questionnaire.

Scheduled classes will start on 13-th October.  In the winter term 2006/07  classes will be held in the  Delfin swimming pool, at. Kasprzaka street 3, each Friday, 5 am.

An indispensable condition for starting the classes is to deliver a medical certificate about lack of contraindications against this form of activity and to fill up a swimming pool questionnaire.

A number of participants is limited ! 

An additional information gives Ms. Anna Szymańska.

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  • The questionnaire for participants of the physical education classes in the swimming pool for persons impaired in mobiltiy.

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