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    STUDIA EDUCATIO ARTIS GYMNASTICAE - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   PROFESSIONAL SWIMMING FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND/OR BLIND CHILDREN IN ROMANIA.

Authors:  MANIU DRAGOŞ ADRIAN, MANIU EMESE AGNES. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  From the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960, swimming has represented one of the main sports within the Paralympics. Like in the Olympic Games, competitors measure their skills in free style, backstroke, butterfly and Medley. The present paper presents a project whose purpose is to teach blind children how to swim and then to select the best of them in order to participate in international competitions. Romania never had a swimming team for blind children, and during the first 6 months these children had an excellent performance in international competitions. It is evident that swimming for visually impaired children is an activity which can positively change their lives.

Keyworlds: visually impaired, paralimpic swimmers, Romania 

 
         
     
         
         
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