Teach a Child With Autism to Swim: Real Swim Lesson

Welcome to our channel. My name is Coach Jacob. In this lesson, you're going to see me working with Cadet Lincoln. Lincoln is different. Lincoln has ASD, and he needs a little extra assistance in his lessons. I've been working with him for a long time, and he's come a long way. Lincoln can now swim on his back, swim on his belly, but we're still missing some of those connector pieces to get him to roll over on his own, and so on and so forth. You're going to see how I work with Cadet Lincoln to get him to where he needs to be. You're going to see me getting him on his back and swimming all over the pool, working on his arms, and so on and so forth. Hope you guys enjoy this lesson. Okay, Lincoln, you ready? Let's do some more swimming, okay? You swim to me. Okay, hold on. Let's not do that. All right, let's stand up. Swim back, Lincoln. Ready, set, swim back. Go ahead. I want you. Oh, he's wiping his face. What you doing, Lincoln? You can't wipe your face. All right, you have to scoop your arms. Scoop your arms. Scoop your arms. Where do we stretch? We need to stretch. Stretch. Sheesh. Sheesh. Sheesh. Come on, you got to use your arms, Lincoln. You got to scoop and go get goggles. Swim back. Let's see what you're doing. Hey, stop that. That's good. You got to breathe eventually, right? Okay, Lincoln, can I put these on, please? Let's put them on. We're going to put them on our head so you can see under the water. Let go. You let go. You want mama help? I got you. Hello? Can you see? You want help? He's very sensitive in the face. He's just pinching his eyes closed. It's okay, Lincoln. Where are you? Where are you, Lincoln? You going under the water? Hey, there we go. Now he's not rubbing his eyes. That's good. Hey, Lincoln, a little bit on the left. That's okay. Let's go ahead. Swim back. Good job, Lincoln. Big swim. All right, take away the legs. Let's see if we can get the arms. There's the left one. Good job, Lincoln. Bubbles. Bubbles. Swimming? Swim? Does that mean something? You got to roll. Ready to swim back? Go ahead. There he goes. Where's your arms? Okay, scoop your arms. You want goggles? You don't want them? Okay, come on. Big smile on his face. Okay, there we go. Okay, now what do we do? There's the rubbing. Oh, no, no, no. You need a haircut. What's the next? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Reward right away. Reward right away. Good job. That was really nice. That was really good. Good boy. Now you need to just get there on your own every time. You want on? Yeah? Goggles? You see? You want them? Okay. Ready, set, stand up on your feet. Up on your feet. And jump to me. Swim to me. Let's go. Okay, so I'm looking for him to just do the turn on his own here, but I'm still going to have to go. That was cute. Oh, man. That's what we don't want. As soon as those arms come up, he sinks. Good, but then come down. Wait for him to look at me. I got a current on the back of his head. One, two, three. Almost, man. We'll get there. You want to float with me? Want to float with me? Just float. Put your legs down, please. Look up at me, Lincoln. Look at me, and we're all done. Can you look at me? Where are you? Oh, hello. Hey, where are you? We go one, two, three, four. There he is. Look back, please. Five, six, seven, eight. You want the big one? Okay, Lincoln, you swim back. Scoop your hands. Scoop your hands, Lincoln. Put your hands on the eyes again. Nope, he's going to have to push himself up. Oh, boy. Oh, geez. We're going to have to shake it off. You ready, bro? Ready to swim? He's so happy to see us. Come on. Let's go. Straight laughing, right to the bottom of the pool, and still laughing. Oh, and drinking. Don't throw up. Don't do it. You good? Okay, we're not going to happen. Where are you? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Good job. Swim to the wall, Lincoln, and go that way. Can we use our arms? Can we use our arms to swim? Scoop, Lincoln. Scoop. Scoop. Scoop your hands. Let's use our arms. We're going to reach and pull, reach and pull, reach and pull. There you go. Very good. Good. Reach up. Good job, Lincoln. Okay, let's go to that side now. Looks like a small pool. You can go side to side. Use your arms. Use your arms. Use your arms. Reach and pull. Reach and pull. Reach and pull. Reach and pull. This one, too. This one, too. Reach and pull. No arms. I'm not going to let him move forward if there's no arms. Can't go forward if there's no arms. Okay, buddy? Let's try again. Use those arms, okay? If you don't see the arms, you've got to take away the feet. I don't allow the feet at all. Hold here. You'll need air eventually. Wait for him to come up. Use your arms, buddy. Scoop, Lincoln. Go. Scoop. Scoop. Scoop. Lincoln, you can't rub your eyes underwater, okay? You can't rub your eyes if you're not wearing goggles. You can't rub your eyes. You got to swim. You got to swim. Well, he used his arms to get up. No, Lincoln. Let's take him away. Let's see what that does. Maybe that's the way to go for a little bit here. Okay, let's go back. That way. Nope. Good. There he goes. There he goes. There they are. Nope. Nope. He needs air. Come on. Good job. Don't want you going up. Come on. Use your arms. Let's swim to the other side. Let's do it again. Red Serpent. Red Serpent is notorious for drinking water and going up on accident, so we're going to try to avoid that. Come on. Use your arms. Use your arms. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job. Good job. We'll do more visuals with him. Take away those legs. Take away those legs. I want to see him scoop. There it is. There it is. Forcing that head up. That's what I want to see. Just to strengthen him. Strengthen his tools. There we go. Bubbles. Okay, nice. Nice. I wasn't sure if those were good bubbles or bad ones. Okay, buddy. Great job. Great job. Keep going. Do more. My fingers are starting to prune up real bad. I'm getting one. I'm going to just swap two today. Buddy. Look. Hands in front. Look at me. Swim to me. Scoop. Scoop. Scoop. Scoop, Lincoln. Great scoops. We're going to try to reward that right away. No hands. Come on. Where are you? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. A good swim back there. That was super nice. Hey, Lincoln. Good job. Scoop all the way back. You got to use your arms and scoop your hands. Scoop your hands and use your arms. All the way back to the stairs. You got to swim back with your arms, Lincoln. With your arms, Lincoln. Okay? With your arms, Lincoln. With your arms, Lincoln. Hey, there he is. That's good. Okay. Should we let Lincoln experience the current? It's so strong. It's so hard to hold him. It's a great workout. You're flying into the wall. You don't want that. Isn't that cool, Lincoln? You want to do it one more time? There we go. Super fun. Grab the wall, okay? You ready? We're going to jump in first. More of a diver and then we're going to let him turn. He knows to turn the body. That's all we practice, but does he grab? That's the question. Look, the wall is there, Lincoln. No? All right, so we got to practice. Come on. Keep going. We're going to do it again, all right? We're going to just build a habit, all right? Let's go. Ready? Swim. Keep him somewhat close to the wall. Don't rub your eyes. Use the wall. Grab the wall. There's a good reach. Much better than the first one. Good job, buddy. That was nice. Two more. Let's switch sides, actually. Ready? Go ahead this way. So back to the eye thing. Come on. Come on. Come on. There. Yeah, he needs to breathe now. Good job. That's okay. Good work. Ready? Last one, okay? Last one. Go ahead. Hey, there it is. There it is. Rinse and repeat, man. Okay. Oh, we're going to go to our back. That's not what it is. Lincoln, put your leg down, huh? All right. One, two, three, four, five. That's good on his back. I'm going to roll back over. Hands went right back to that face. Come on. We're going to have to make him like that. Good boy. Good job, Lincoln. That's so nice. Come over there. He's not rubbing his face. Let's push away from that wall, which we don't want. Good job. Are you touching the ground? Figured out he can touch the ground. Use your arms. Swim back to the stairs, okay? Over there, Lincoln. Go ahead. Swim over there. Go ahead. There he goes. Good job, Lincoln. Good work today. We've got some other things to do. Good work today, sir. Stand up. Here we go. Up a step. Up, up.