A student enrolled in the Pasadena, California, Art Center College of Design at the time of the Project Elle, Ms. Tosin was driven by her desire to create functional design and meaningful human experience that changes the way people think, feel, and do.

Project Elle

One with the Water® provided professional participation as a mentor and swimming expert.  Coach Kenneth Rippetoe co-designed a prosthetic leg used as swimwear that would most replicate and assist an amputee while swimming, to overcome a lack of balance, help the swimmer gain stability, and have the same mechanical advantages of a human leg.

The most prominent design challenges to the project, according to Ms. Tosin herself, included compensating for the imbalanced buoyancy created by a missing limb, the multifunctionality needed for launch, swimming, and turning, and finally, ensuring a comfortable, secure fit capable of handling the workload.

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Final Design

The final design featured a support liner and elastic bands sewn into compression fabrics. We created an adjustable air chamber to provide buoyancy for maintaining the streamline position. The “ankle” is flexible to optimize starts and turns, and the device comes with an interchangeable fin, depending on the swimmer’s foot size.

The result? Elle, A game-changing prosthetic device for single-leg below the knee amputees to swim and compete with their peers, now with swimwear available as well.

For more information on the product, check out Della’s website here.

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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General health benefits for adaptive athletes.

Physical benefits: General overall health improvements from swimming include: low impact for mobility restricted individuals, improved cardiovascular health, improved flexibility and muscle tone, range of movement, and can provide positive assists in meeting therapeutic goals outside the pool.

Psychological benefits: Recent studies have proven that adaptive athletes report a proportionate increase of positive self-identity with increased physical activity. In the first study, designed to counteract the metaphors and descriptors used for athletes with disabilities, there were three overarching themes.

• Don’t treat athletes differently
• Exercise assists in managing emotions
• Physical activity balances others’ negative perceptions

In the second study, explicitly done on swimmers, athletes also reported similar findings.

• A strong self-identity
• A moderate to strong social identity
• Negative affectivity with lower levels of exclusivity
• Strong competitiveness and goal orientation

But why the swim team?

For adaptive athletes, there are specific benefits of joining a swim team, especially athletes with socialization barriers and self or peer-directed exclusion from neuro-typical events. Adaptive athletes who participate in swim teams benefit from the following:

• Better sport-specific coaching.
• More rigorous training.
• More competition in practice.
• Higher expectations than they are likely to receive in other settings.
• More socialization opportunities.
• Greater independence in activities of daily living.
• Improved ability to cope with limitations imposed by disabilities. (Source).

The data is clear on all fronts. Joining a swim team creates a next level positive impact on the pre-existing physical, emotional, and mental benefits derived from swimming. Register today for an opportunity to join our adaptive athletes swim team!

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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“You have the power to change you.” – Jamal Hill

L.A. based hometown hero Jamal Hill started swimming in mommy and me swim lessons and fell in love with the sport almost instantly. However, after swimming consistently throughout elementary school, Jamal was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndromex, a genetic disease affecting his extremities and causing him to be partially paralyzed for years.

Jamal began swimming again in high school and throughout college, but it wasn’t until age 23 that he let go of the shame he carried over his diagnosis and embraced all that his body could do, setting his sights on the Paralympic Games in Tokyo next year, 2020.

Watch the short doc produced and directed by John Duarte and hear Jamal tell his incredible, inspiring story in his own words.

Swim Up Hill – A short doc on US Paralympic Swimmer, Jamal Hill from John Duarte on Vimeo.

Jamal is a shining example of what the growth mindset looks like in action, and should remind us all just how much we are capable of when we work with persistent, consistent, quality effort, recognizing our weaknesses and applying the necessary change to grow.

Learn more here about our coaching philosophy using the growth mindset.

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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“ASCA develops and supports professional coaches and quality career opportunities in collaboration with its partners in the world aquatics community. We are an independent professional association based on a central theme of: “Leadership, Education, Certification.” We are dedicated to creating and enhancing solutions that are effective in strengthening and improving the coaching profession, American swimming, and World Swimming.”

The qualifications necessary to achieve this level of accomplishment and acknowledgment as a leader in his field are extensive and stringent. To achieve the ASCA Level 5 Disability Coach certification, a coach must: Successfully complete the ASCA Level 5: Administration School; have a minimum of 50 Experience points; and meet specific achievement and contribution criteria.

• On international coaches list for their respective organization; AND a minimum of 2 athletes who have medaled at a Paralympic Games or Deaflympics; OR
• Four athletes who have medaled at a World Championships; OR ten athletes who have been finalists at a Paralympic Games or Deaflympics
• Serve in a leadership role at the international level; AND have made significant contributions internationally to the sport.

Currently, Coach Rippetoe is the only Level Five coach in the state of California. His knowledge will allow him to continuously provide specific and goal-oriented swim programs for disabled individuals, including those diagnosed on the autism spectrum, ADD, ADHD, sensory integration, anxiety, Down and CHARGE syndrome, auditory processing disorders, and dyslexia. Coach Rippetoe and his team develop customized plans for each swimmer. With sensitivity and compassion, they use mechanical engineering strategies to analyze body mechanics and assist in applying physics to swimming techniques.

The result is two-fold: students are able to advance their swimming skills while increasing their chances of becoming competitive swimmers. Register today to access our expert swim coaching tailored to your child’s needs.

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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“The American Swimming Coaches Association provides leadership to American and World swimming at all levels. ASCA develops and supports professional coaches and quality career opportunities in collaboration with its partners in the world aquatics community.”

From ASCA:

“On January 11, 2018, Coach Kenneth Rippetoe of One with the Water, successfully completed the requirement(s) for ASCA Level 4 Disability certification.

To achieve the ASCA Level 4 Disability Coach certification, a coach must: successfully complete the ASCA Level 4: Leadership School and IPC Swimming Online Classification courses; have a minimum of 40 Experience points; and meet specific achievement and contribution criteria. For the achievement criteria, a coach must have: a minimum of 1 athlete on a Paralympic Games or Deaflympics team; or 2 athletes on a World Championships team; or 20 different athletes who have finished in the top 3 at their respective National Championships.”

What does this mean?

His knowledge will allow him to continuously provide specific and goal-oriented swim programs for disabled individuals, including those diagnosed on the autism spectrum, ADD, ADHD, sensory integration, anxiety, Down and CHARGE syndrome, auditory processing disorders, and dyslexia. The disabled swimming programs focus on identifying the potential of the disabled swimmer and their ability level in order to provide the best opportunities for improvement and development. Together, Coach Rippetoe and his team work hard to develop a customized disabled swimming program for each individual and set achievable and realistic goals. The result is two-fold: students are able to advance their swimming skills while increasing their chances of becoming competitive swimmers. 

Congratulations Coach Rippetoe on your monumental accomplishment, and thank you for your continuing dedication to coaching adaptive athletes, and the sport of swimming as a whole.

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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Athletes Without Limits USA National Team will be competing at the 2017 INAS Swimming Championship, to be held in Aguascalientes, Mexico from November 27 – December 4, 2017.

INAS- International Federation for Intellectual Impairment Sport was established in 1986 by professionals in the Netherlands who were involved in sport and wanted to promote the participation of athletes with intellectual disabilities.  INAS has a membership of 80 nations and is a member of the International Paralympic Committee.

We’d love to introduce you to few inspirational athletes representing the US and adaptive athletes everywhere!

Athletes Without Limits

Meet Sara.

As soon as the coach yells “go,” 15 swimmers dive into the 6-lane swimming pool at Superior Athletic Club. During this practice drill, Sara Slawta is third in line in lane six. In the water, Slawta, who was diagnosed with brain impairment at a young age, is just like “one of the other kids,” says her swimming coach of 14 years, Siouxha Tokman. Slawta swims in the Elite group at Superior Stingray Swimming, the most competitive level at the club. … Slawta joined Superior Stingray more than a year ago. Since then, she has come in every day for a two-hour practice. “Practice makes perfect,” she says. “I just like swimming, so I come every time and try to be better each time.” – The Mail Tribune 

Sara had her sights set on the INAS swimming championship way back in July, and she is no rookie in competition. She took home nine medals at the 2017 Athletes Without Limits Long Course National Championships AND helped break an American record as part of a 4×100 relay.

This is Jonny Pierce, American record holder and swimmer for the US Paralympic Team. Pierce, who is autistic, has hypersensitive hearing. He discovered as a boy that the pool was a calming refuge. “He loved the water when he was really little,” said his father, Tim. “Before he could swim he would jump in the water and just float. He liked that the water blocked his ears. He would float with his ears under the water. I guess we didn’t know that when he was young … but it blocked out all the sounds that were bothering him. “He would float, cross his legs and cross his arms, with his ears underwater. We’d have to pull him out.” Now 22, Pierce still loves the pool, but he does more than float. He was introduced to swimming by his parents — who both swim at the masters level and coach — at age 7 and participated in youth and high school programs. – From USA Swimming

Now, Johnny works hard in the pool and the gym 5 days a week. His work has paid off with steady improvement and he currently holds 18 American Records for S-14 Paralympics.

And then there is Leslie Cichoki.

Leslie is the highest ranked swimmer with intellectual disability in the US. She holds a number of National and Americas Region records and was the first US swimmer with intellectual impairment selected for the Rio 2016 US Paralympic team.

In competition, Leslie is both calm and powerful. At one of her first Paralympic meets she was the only female swimmer in the entire meet to complete a 200 Butterfly, earning her huge props from her teammates and the Paralympic swim community. Leslie has been swimming since she was four years old. When she is not in the pool — which is rare these days — Leslie also enjoys putting her athleticism to work playing other sports and encouraging fellow Athletes Without Limits throughout the US on Facebook. –  Athletes without Limits

Stay tuned this week as we highlight some more of these inspirational athletes who dream big, work hard, and bulldoze the obstacles in their path. A universal lesson for us all.

Donate Today

At One with the Water, we work with swimmers just like the ones mentioned here. In fact, one of our own is on the team. Help us support adaptive athletes by donating today. You inspire us with your commitment to their success.

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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Inspiring, right? We watch and cry and applaud the courage, heart, and determination on display from these incredible athletes. So why is it that our children are still facing tremendous barriers to participating in sport as adaptive athletes?

There is good news and bad news.

Social Stigma in Sport

First the bad news. According to a recent report published by Variety, the children’s charity, the number one barrier to differently abled children participating in sport is the social stigma associated with their conditions. From the study:

• One in two (50%) parents surveyed with a child with disabilities aged 4 to 18 say their child doesn’t feel comfortable taking part in sports with other children.
• Over a third (36%) of parents reported that their child had experienced negative social attitudes to their health problem or disability, in relation to sport.

The consequences are far-reaching. Some children with special needs have increased risk of being overweight.  Their lack in participation in sport due to social stigma, associated costs, and fear of failure or injury places them at a higher risk. Additionally, children with disabilities who lack consistent therapy face increased isolation, increased care requirements, decreased mental health, increased fear and anxiety, and shortened lifespans.

It’s not just fact or statistics. The self-reporting bears out the science. According to the Variety study, “Over 70% of those schools and voluntary sector groups who expressed an opinion said that a lack of participation contributed to disabled children’s social isolation and lack of confidence or reduced their life experiences. Others reported a negative impact on emotional and physical wellbeing.”

But wait! I have good news.

Benefits of sports for adaptive athletes.

 The health benefits of swimming for individuals of all abilities have been well-documented, both here and elsewhere. And the research is clear on the mental and social benefits for the athlete. One study (among many) found that when participating in sports, adapted athletes believed they exceeded the expectations associated with their specific disability, specifically by the demonstration of a fit, muscular, and liberated body exhibiting physical skill.

“Participation in this setting is unexpected and emphasizes an alternative representation of a disabled body.”

How do we fight social stigma?

Perhaps the most revolutionary, important news in the aid to remove stigma, however, is what happens when average children and adults are paired with those who are differently abled. When the two groups engage with each other in a sport and adaptive sport setting, perceptions change for the better. And yes, I have a study for that too. We can change our own and others’ (often unconscious) negative expectations of children with disabilities by getting involved.

About that.

Want to know what the number two barrier is to adaptive athletes participating? Cost. Cost of facilities and equipment, of suitable transport, and of coaching and membership.

At One with the Water we are actively working to smash both of those barriers, but we can’t do it without you. We need you to engage, whether it be by participating in swim lessons, or helping to offset the cost. When you donate to One with the Water, you impact a child’s life on every plane – mentally, physically, and emotionally. For their lifetime.

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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Independent Study in Physical Education

In brief, Independent Study in Physical Education (ISPE) is a Physical Education option put forth by the California Department of Education and approved by the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. Essentially ISPE allows students to participate in physical education learning outside of school hours and off school property. Additionally, ISPE creates the opportunity for students to experience advanced levels of activity not typically available in the district. In order for a program to be ISPE eligible, the following is required:

• Must be a significantly different program from what is offered by district.
• Applicant must be competitive at state, regional, or local level.
• Approved ISPE programs must be structured programs taught by qualified coaches responsible for supervising, documenting and verifying student participation, progress and performance.
• Approved ISPE programs must engage students for a minimum of 250 minutes for each 5 school days (weekend events not included), in physical activity, support personal growth, and promote healthy living and physical activity as lifelong goals, and adhere to the state’s content standards in physical education.

One with the Water Coaching

Our swim team programs are taught by expert coaches with years of experience competing, teaching, and coaching. We maintain our certifications and our physical condition, to ensure you get the best swim coaches in the business. Our instructors continue to compete at the professional and amateur level, and most have competed at the collegiate level.

At One with the Water, our lessons are not a one-size-fits-all coaching. Every lesson is customized to fit your experience, personality, and strengths. Additionally, we are equipped to teach children & adults with: ADD & ADHD, Anxiety, Autism Spectrum, Down and CHARGE syndrome, Sensory Integration Issues, auditory processing disorders, amputation, Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, spinal cord injury, obesity, and other disabilities.

Our students have gone onto to compete in the ParaOlympics as well as swimming competitively at the high school and collegiate level. Combine your child’s love of the water with a time-efficient way to meet district standards and manage their schedule appropriately … all while reaping the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of swimming.

Follow the link for ISPE application forms and detailed program instructions.

No high schoolers at your house? Help us serve the underserved in your community by providing lessons to low income students and students with special needs. Partner with us today and you can be a hero to those that lack traditional access to swimming and swimming lessons.

Molly Huggins

Molly is a member of our creative team, mom of four water-loving babies, and a fierce advocate for CPR training and really early swim instruction.

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One of our swimmers, Tessa, a 15 year-old girl with autism, with about 9 years of swimming experience, recently made her high school swim team and competes in U.S. Paralympics events. As a result of her autism, it is sometimes difficult for her to understand why different races require different pacing. She swims the 400 meter freestyle at the same stroke rate as 50 and 100 meter races, which puts her at a disadvantage. At the June 6, 2015, U.S. Paralympics swim meet held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, she swam freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly events. In her classification, she placed first in the 100 meter freestyle race!

After training with the Tempo Trainer for just two months Tessa had these wonderful swim results:

• 400m Free – Best time by 15 seconds! And her 1st 50 split was a best time by 4 seconds.
• 100m Free – Best time by 5 seconds!
• 200m Free – First time to swim it, her 1st 50 was a best time by 4 seconds from two days before, and her 100 split was a best time by 8 seconds!
• 50m Back – A best time by 13 seconds!

When providing autism swim lessons, it is important to remember that everything must be done one step at a time and to practice that one step until it is completely mastered; giving a child with autism multiple things to work on, like tempo and proper freestyle pulling, isn’t going to help them learn either skill efficiently and can take up to 4 times longer to master. Working only on stroke rate until the skill is mastered, allows for sufficient processing time.

Abstract concepts like slow, medium and fast are very difficult to understand for most swimmers with autism. We needed a visual teaching method in order to teach the concept of speed and stroke rate. In order to assist this swimmer, we purchased the FINIS, Inc. Tempo Trainer Pro. By using the Tempo Trainer, we showed her the number, 80 for example, a reasonable stroke rate for a 400+ meter event, and let her hear the beep at that rate.

Her dad came up with a way to assist her in understanding how to move her arms to that beep, using a version of the hand slap game. You know the game that one person puts their hands upside down and the other player puts their hands on top? The hands on the bottom have to try to slap the hands on the top before the person moves them. This was quite effective for several reasons. First, when we teach freestyle to kids with special needs, we ask that they give us a “high five” in the water to require their arms to recover above water, avoiding doggie-paddle, and second, it is a very visual way to learn that the hands must move with the beep.

Why the Next 10 Years of Autism Swim Lessons Will Smash the Last 10

Starting at an easy pace of 75 strokes per minute and then increasing the speed in small, easily noticeable increments to 85, and going back and forth between the two, allowed her to learn each pace. Once she mastered that, we increased the pace to 80, 90 and 100 strokes per minute. We labelled each pace in writing, giving her a visual cue. This helped her to understand the slow, medium and fast stroke rate. We will now teach her the appropriate stroke rate for a 50 freestyle (e.g. she needs to be at 110 or higher). For her 400 freestyle, I would like to see her at 95+, but anything above 80 will be sufficient for now. Please be forewarned that we make it fun so hysterical laughing might occur in this exercise; in fact, it should be encouraged.

Once she learned to pace her arm movements in the dryland exercise, we moved her into the water. Putting the Tempo Trainer on her goggles strap next to her ears allowed her to hear the beep while wearing the TTP comfortably.

After several weeks of practice time, she was moving her arms fairly consistently to the beep, in all three speeds. To start in the water, it was easier for her to “high-five” me in a similar fashion as the dry land exercise, and then continuing the hand slapping while doing full strokes. She became a faster swimmer and I had to get out of her way so that she could swim freely at the new tempos she was learning.

We hope that she will carry this new skill into her races, but at least for now, she is swimming in practice at a faster stroke rate than before. She’s already won in our eyes.

About Coach Kenneth

Coach Kenneth Rippetoe loves being in the water and teaching swimming. He is a member of the American Swimming Coach Association, certified as Disability Level 3 & US Masters Level 2 Coach. Kenneth competed in intercollegiate swimming at John Brown University and he is a 1993 All-American, as a member of the 4 x 200 yard Freestyle relay team. He was a 1993 National Qualifier in the 100 yard Backstroke and the 200 yard Individual Medley. As a U.S. Masters swimmer, Kenneth set a FINA Masters World Record in the 4 x 100 short course meters relay, December 2009. Kenneth has 14 U.S. Masters Top Ten swims. He has worked as a swim instructor and lifeguard since 1985.

About ONE WITH THE WATER

We believe that swimming is a life-skill that all children and adults should learn. By learning how to swim, we increase our understanding of the world around us. Swimming also equips us with skills that help us to live better and might potentially save our life at some point. Learning to swim teaches us ways to cope with the challenges that come our way in life. The approach used by One with the Water provides success at any age. We empower swimmers, building their confidence and awareness of the water, teaching them how to swim as quickly as possible

One with the Water is a nationally acclaimed non-profit swim school dedicated to teaching life-changing swimming skills to kids and adults—many of them with disabilities or special needs such as Autism, Asperger’s, ADD, ADHD, sensory integration, anxiety, Down and CHARGE syndrome, auditory processing disorders and dyslexia. OWTW also provides lessons to Service-Disabled Veterans and athletes of the U.S. Paralympics and U.S. Special Olympics. OWTW has been featured on the Sundance Channel and is a preferred charity for Train-4-Autism. More information can be found at http://onewiththewater.org. Donations are always welcome and greatly appreciated. Please contact us at 323-364-Swim (7946) to find out more about us.

About FINIS, INC.

John Mix and Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Pablo Morales founded FINIS, Inc. in 1993 with a mission to simplify swimming for athletes, coaches, beginners and lifelong swimmers around the world. Today, FINIS, Inc. fulfills that mission through technical innovation, high quality products and a commitment to education. FINIS, Inc. products are currently available in over 80 countries. With a focus on innovation and the fine details of swimming, FINIS, Inc. will continue to develop products that help more people enjoy the water.

The FINIS, Inc. Tempo Trainer Pro

Develop consistency and avoid lulls with a personal pace coach, the Tempo Trainer Pro. The small, waterproof device easily secures under a swimmer’s cap or clips onto the goggle strap and transmits an audible tempo beep. Athletes use the beep to train smarter and discover their perfect pace. Now with the option to replace the battery, the Tempo Trainer Pro will last multiple lifetimes. The advanced unit also has a new Sync button and a new mode in strokes/strides per minute for increased functionality. The Tempo Trainer Pro includes a clip for dry land exercise or clipping onto the goggle straps.

Read this article on the FINIS website.

Kenny

Kenny is a baby Bottlenose dolphin, of the genus Tursiops, one of the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. He is very playful and friendly and loves to frequently leap above the water surface. Kenny plays with water toys, enjoys making bubble rings, and plays well with other dolphins or other animals.

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I have been teaching swimming for over twenty-five years. A few years ago, I started teaching swimmers diagnosed with the Autism Spectrum Disorder. The difference in my teaching methods did not change. I have always given step-by-step instructions, breaking down each motion into 3 or fewer simple steps. Sometimes, I even move their arms and legs for the swimmers, so that they can feel how their muscles should be moving in the correct form.

What is the difference in teaching children diagnosed as being on the spectrum? They seem to enjoy swimming more than the average person. There is something about being in the water that just makes them feel calm and relaxed, and present in their bodies.

I have seen that many people who have children with Autism do not get the resources they need. Some insurance companies do not recognize Autism as a treatable or recognizable condition. These families have to work so hard just to maintain the basics. At One with the Water, we see these families struggling and are trying our best to ease their burdens. Swimming is an incredible vehicle for positive change and awareness.

Chad, a teenager who trained with us for five months, recently made the cut-off times to train with his high school varsity swim team. While training with us, he progressed from swimming almost two minutes per 100 yards freestyle, to less than 1 minute 10 seconds per 100 yards. Chad has been training with his varsity team for almost 3 months now, and his swimming is progressing so that Chad is competing in breaststroke as well as freestyle. More importantly for us, Chad is able to compete in the mainstream swim program offered by his school.

In addition to the lack of financial resources for families, most public and private schools do not have the resources to provide programs for children with special needs within their athletic programs. Chad requires a little one-on-one attention. Schools and large programs do not have these resources, nor are they set up to provide such instruction for their students. This gap needs to be filled, and One with the Water fills that gap.

My experience in teaching the kids has been phenomenal. They are smart, communicative in their own ways, and they appreciate being in the water. They love the pressure on their bodies, like a hug, that the water puts on them. They like being submerged. This helps them to feel grounded. With all of the stimulation in the world today: noise, internet, visual and verbal, being under water helps them to escape from that and clear their minds.

As one father with a child on the Autism Spectrum recently told me, “Henry really responded to you, and looks forward to his class with you more than anything else right now. After the first class with you , he suddenly looked forward to and enjoyed swimming, as opposed to dreading it. He made huge strides, the biggest he has ever made, working with you.”

Donations made to One with the Water are used to provide instruction, insurance, and pool rental in order to teach kids like Chad and Henry. Help us to keep teaching these children, saving their lives, by donating today.

Kenny

Kenny is a baby Bottlenose dolphin, of the genus Tursiops, one of the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. He is very playful and friendly and loves to frequently leap above the water surface. Kenny plays with water toys, enjoys making bubble rings, and plays well with other dolphins or other animals.

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