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2nd iCoachKids International Conference Leeds 5th & 6th Sept 2018 Developing Effective Environments for Children in Sport SWIMMING FOR CHILDREN WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT IN LITHUANIA BIRUTĖ STATKEVIČIENĖ, LSU birutest@gmail.com

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Lithuania Population – 2.81 mill, area – 65,300 km2 GB – 60.8 mill, area – 209,331 km2

City of Kaunas Population – 295, 525

The number 1 Sport in Kaunas and Lithuania is Basketball

Rūta Meilutytė and Danas Rapšys

After classes pupils can choose various leisure activities provided in schools or attend sports, music, fine arts, aviation, choreography schools. Professional artists, athletes, coaches and teachers work with the children in these schools

• The most popular children’s sports institutions are

Sports schools and sports clubs which are in all cities and regions in Lithuania. The Sport schools are budgeted by the city councils. Sports clubs they are mainly private and for children are not as popular as Sports schools.

Sport Number of

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clubs Basketball 26 Baseball 2 Wrestling 6 Judo 5 Tennis 7 Handball 7 Swimming 9 Football 16 Figure skating 5 Track and field 8 Rowing 7 Body building 27 Athletic clubs for disabled 10

Number of Sports Clubs in Kaunas City

Sport schools in the city of Kaunas

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Sc School Spo Sports an and Co Coaches 1. Kaunas Swim school Swimming, water polo, diving, pentathlon, triathlon, equestrian sports (43 coaches) 2. Startas Swimming, volleyball, swimming for disables, gymnastics, track and field (74 coaches) 3. Gaja Boxing, badminton, cycling, judo, fencing, Greek-Roman wrestling, free style wrestling, orienteering, chess, checkers, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo (approximately 40 coaches) 4. Aisčiai Basketball, (15 coaches) (9 boys teams, 7 girls teams) 5. Tauras Football (14 coaches) 6. Baltų ainiai Winter sports: figure skating, hockey, curling, artistic development coaches (15 coaches) 7. Bangputys Sailing, rowing, canoe, (11 sailing coaches -16 rowing)

Sport Schools’ Objectives

• To develop and to nourish healthy individuals
• to inspire a love and need for physical

education

• to promote the training process through

sports competition and health promoting activities

Sports schools employ qualified coaches. The categories granted to the coaches depend on their education and the success of his/her athletes in various competitions.

Are visual impaired children the same as children with normal vision? In my view, except for their inability to see, there are no differences between them. Visual impairment is not an

• verwhelming handicap in teaching them to swim

and to use swimming for fun or to take part at the competitions.

Number of visually impaired people (by WHO) (2010)

Blindness

• No. in millions

(percentage ) Low vision

• No. in millions

(percentage) Visual Impairment

• No. in millions

(percentage ) World 39.365 246.024 285.389 Europe 2.713 (7) 25.502 (10.4) 28.215 (9.9) America 3.211(8) 23.401 (9.5) 26.612 (9.3) Africa 5.888 (15) 20.407 (8.3) 26.295 (9.2) China 8.248 (20.9) 67.264 (27.3) 75.512 (26.5)

What Causes Blindness?

• Glaucoma
• Macular degeneration destroys the part of eye that enables

to see details. It usually affects older adults.

• Cataracts cause cloudy vision.
• A lazy eye can make it difficult to see details. It may lead to

vision loss.

• Optic neuritis is inflammation that can cause temporary or

permanent vision loss.

• Retinitis pigmentosa refers to damage of the retina. It leads

to blindness only in rare cases.

• Tumors that affect your retina or optic nerve can also cause

blindness.

This is what some people see

• Cloudy vision

An inability to see shapes

Tunnel vision

Spots and double vision

Poor night vision

Blindness

Mindaugas

Mindaugas

Marius, Žygis, Paulius

Former Olympians visit sports camp and display medals

Paulius, Oksana, Mindaugas

Presidental awards

Marija and Marius

Everyone who wishes to work, or is already working with visual impaired and blind children must experience their disability. As if, to figuratively get inside their skin. It is not enough just to close your eyes and walk across the room or to try to swim with eyes closed, to run in a stadium, or walk the street with a blindfold. That is not the same feeling that the blind persons experience because you have the ability, as soon as fear strikes you, to open your eyes.

LSU Students simulating blindness

In one of the schools where my students attend there is a special class which is engulfed in total

• darkness. When I was there I came to a full realization what

a blind child feels when he finds himself in a strange

• environment. I in the class was overwhelmed and for several

minutes I was unable to move. Even as a teacher takes you by the hand and in total darkness guides you, there remains a feeling of unease. The teacher then must not only guide you but explain the surroundings and let them touch everything in near them. Thus bringing the children to the swimming pool it is necessary to explain the environment they are in: the changing room, lockers, showers and how to turn them on, toilets and the pool itself. This requires several lessons.

• Swimming ability is necessary and important. If a child

can swim, he can enjoy nature in watery environment, play in the water and help non-swimmers.

• Fundamental requirement in swimming for fun: a child

must know how to swim. Swim lessons must be directed at swimming correctly, to learn competitive swim styles. Being in the water without the objective

• f learning to swim is a waste of time. Swimming

correctly is useful and pleasant.

• The most rational swim styles are the

competitive styles: Crawl (Free), Back, Breast and Butterfly. Mastering them, a child can easily move in the water, dive, jump and play.

• A person who can swim is a person who can

remain on water’s surface for 30 minutes or longer, using two of the four competitive strokes.

Swim apparel The children have never experienced it. Everything must be demonstrated; working with each individual it is necessary to explained how to put on swim caps and goggles and to inform them where these items can be purchased.

Swimming caps

Swimming goggles

Swimming suits

Swimming pool

Teaching to swim consist of two parts:

• 1. Preparatory exercises in the water
• 2. Teaching competitive swimming styles

Switch on your smile

There are 6 groups of Preparatory Exercises for teaching to swim

• 1. Various arm and leg motions standing in shallow

water 2.Mobility on the swimming pool bottom in vertical position

• 3. Plunging into the water and opening eyes
• 4. Rises and lies on the water's surface
• 5. Breathing
• 6. Gliding in the water and under the water (diving)

• 1. Various arm and leg motions

standing in shallow water

2.Mobility on the swimming pool bottom in vertical position

3.Plunging into the water and

• pening eyes

Competitive swimming styles

• The most rational swim styles are the

competitive styles: Crawl (Free), Back, Breast and Butterfly. Mastering them, a child can easily move in the water, dive, jump and play.

Mass of human body parts

Bod

• dy par

arts M (kg (kg) %

Head

5.2 6.7

Trunk

33.4 43.3

Arm

1.9 2.5

Forearm

1.3 1.7

Hand

0.5 0.6

Hip

11.2 14.5

Calf

3.4 4.4

Foot

1.1 1.4

The mass of a human head is approximately 6 to 7% of the total body mass

How many kilograms does a human body weigh in the water?

Body weight in the water depends on body composition: muscle, bone and fat content and on inhalation and exhalation.

Body floatation depends on person inhalation

A man’s body in the water weighs approximately 2.7 7 kg kg, while a woman’s body is approximately 1.1 kg

(Organ L.W., Eukland A.D., Lebeter J.D. (1994) *

Drowning

• 4. Rises and lies on the water's

surface (mushroom float)

• 5. Breathing

Exhalation is performed through the nose

• 6. Gliding on the surface

• Preparatory Exercises in the Water for Learning

Swimming is the same as the Letters in Reading

• Nobody could read without knowing the Letters

and Nobody can Swim without Skills of Preparatory Exercises in the Water

• 1. Various arm and leg motions standing in shallow

water 2.Mobility on the swimming pool bottom in vertical position

• 3. Plunging into the water and opening eyes
• 4. Rises and lies on the water's surface
• 5. Breathing
• 6. Gliding in the water and under the water (diving)

All preparatory exercises for swimming can be adopted as games for children to play in the water

Teaching competitive swimming styles Backstroke, Breaststroke, Crawl (fee style)

Exercises on dry land

Exercises in the water

Visual impairment is not an overwhelming handicap in teaching them to swim and feel comfortable in water. Demonstrating love for them and their desire to learn, sharing your creativity and perhaps giving up a bit more of yourself than you would for children with sight, putting more emphasis on spoken words on the subject you teach. Visual impaired children feel the teacher’s power better than

• thers. Be brave, these children trust their

teacher.

Swim camp for my blind swimmers

Gliding on the surface on the water

Thanks!