SNAPkids
Community SubscriberSince 1991, SNAPkids - the Special Needs Aquatic Program has empowered children (ages 1-21) with physical and/or developmental disabilities to exercise, swim, and socialize. Group classes include both individualized (designed for your swimmer) and group activities to encourage socialization and reinforce skills. Each swimmer has 1-2 volunteer teachers. Weekly classes during the school year provide consistency and repetition help our swimmers succeed. And it's fun!
Volunteers are needed! Volunteering can fill your heart with joy as you work 1:1 with our special swimmers. Volunteers need to be at least 15 years old, strong swimmers, and have a positive outlook. We request at least 1 hour per week for a semester. Interested volunteers can complete this form: https://bit.ly/VolunteerSNAPkids
Have you checked out https://snapkids.org/? We tried lessons at the YMCA and elsewhere for our Autistic son and it didn't go so well. The nice thing about SNAPkids is they can go at their own pace and are paired with their own volunteer or sometimes my son had three volunteers with him. I'm just glad that he has fun with them and is slowly getting more comfortable. We went on days when the program was at the Albany pool. For noise levels, it's hard to say if it would work. You could probably show up one time without your child and see what you think. There is natural lighting and it's pretty dark in there.
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