10 Steps to Find Autism Swim Lessons

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10 TIPS to effectively find swim lessons for Autism (any Age)

HIP MOVE 10

Have an Exit Strategy and or Alternative Plan and share it with all parties involved. AUSOME that you’ve empowered through this process and got into swimming lessons. The even better news is that the actual lessons are the start of a whole new process. Doesn’t it make you feel warm inside? 

Meltdown Prevention rather than meltdown reaction is the goal. Be prepared (i.e. social story, etc.) for the pool closing DURING lessons due to weather, the swim instructor being absent, pool closed for construction or emergency, you being too tire to get there, getting stuck in traffic. 

If you prepare appropriately, even when the meltdown happens, you control the meltdown and don’t allow the meltdown to control and dictate the situation. 


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