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Strengthen your curriculum with our Adaptive Swim Whisperers® Certification!

Our Online Program is Comprehensive, Flexible, and Convenient!

  • Our online certification program is a multi-sensory platform that offers video content, case studies, practicum, quizzes, and exams to ensure you are prepared to help every type of student.
  • Our program contains information equivalent to a 3 day in person workshop done in the comfort and convenience of your own home or office, and over 90 days allowing you to absorb the course information at your own pace.
  • As long as you maintain your certification, you have unlimited access to the course material allowing you to review the content when questions arise.
  • Our program is ongoing and multi-level. We continuously provide you with more tools, information, and strategies through our educational Facebook group. You will progress through the certification levels until obtaining the Master level at year five.

Gain in-demand adaptive aquatic skills and knowledge and stand out from other swim instructors by earning a Swim Whisperers® Certificate.

In this course, you will learn how to address the sensory and motor challenges in ALL swimmers, helping them to reach their full potential.

With our multi-level training, you can continue to grow your toolbox and strengthen your current teaching method.

The Swim Angelfish Methodology encompasses areas of focus and strategies for overcoming roadblocks for swimmers with Autism, Anxiety, Motor issues, Physical, Sensory, Delays, Discomfort and Trauma. These are the key elements of our methodology.

STRATEGIES FOR ROADBLOCKS

S Safety
W Water Properties
I Interpreting Touch
M Managing Successful Submerging
W Ways of Processing
H Having Body & Breath Control
I Inability To Go On Their Back
S Seeking Sensory Input
P Problems Following a Plan
E Engagement and Interaction Difficulty
R Reactive (Over/Under)
E Excessive Drinking
R Rigidity (Swimmer/Instructor)
S Stroke Performance

AREAS OF FOCUS

A Action
D Discovery
A Adapting
P Physical Limitations
T Transitions
E Equipment
D Decision Making
S Self Awareness
W Well-Being
I Independence
M Modifications

The Adaptive Swim Whisperers® certification program teaches you how to assess and identify roadblocks, and how to implement the correct strategy to overcome them. Our certification program strengthens your swim curriculum by providing you with an effective, time-tested toolbox to serve swimmers with special needs.

Our strategies strengthen your swim curriculum allowing you to better serve swimmers of ALL abilities. They specifically empower you to address the challenges of swimmers with special needs.

Help your swimmers with

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We’ve spent our entire careers committed to making a significant impact in reducing the drowning statistics and improving the lives of children with special needs! Our mission is to globally educate aquatic professionals with our toolbox of strategies to address the underlying problems of swimmers with special needs. You too can make a difference, join this mission join this mission and strengthen your adaptive aquatics skills and knowledge with the Swim Whisperers® Certification.

  • After 10 years of working as aquatic therapist we created Swim Whisperers® to strengthen swim curricula.

  • 2009 We designed a course for swim instructors to learn more about our methodology via DVDs and live workshops.

  • We realized that we had to reach more people than we were attending the live workshops we conducted.
  • In an effort reach more people in 2016 we launched the online certification program on our methodology.

The mission of the Swim Whisperers® Online Certification Program is to globally education aquatic professionals with our toolbox of strategies to address the underlying problem of swimmers with special needs.

Our Swim Whisperers® Certification Online Program includes:

  • 14 hours of online training including video lectures and case studies.

  • A comprehensive manual.
  • A printable workbook.
  • Marketing Kit detailing everything you need to know about how to market the new skills gained during our certification program!

  • Access to our Private Facebook page for additional content and motivation and allowing you to connect with other certified instructors for support, ideas, and further knowledge!
  • Exam.

BEST FLEXIBLE HONEST BROKER which I do admire all time! Congratulations to all of us who keep going to make things possible to all people who need it. Also, thank you Cindy & Ailene and family angelfish for sharing your daily routine to face all the roadblocks. MABUHAY! long live!
Guia Consorte, Qatar Foundation
Just when I thought things couldn’t get better. What an amazing program!
Carolyn Tynan
Everything is so well done! Thank you for all the hard work and heart and soul you have put into this!
Sally Walker, Cruden
Love this quick, at a glance, assessment tool. Will totally laminate and keep on a clipboard/easel poolside for reference.
Sara Aiello, Angelfish GA
I like the structure you’re using of benchmark, roadblock, supports/strategies, and back to the benchmark. It helps with how I think about and plan my future sessions, and also how I make adjustments during lessons.
Annie Peterson, Swim Possible
Simply Amazing progressions!
Jeremiah Flores, International School Manilla
Great considerations that could transfer over into any type of lessons.
Kyle Kamman, Seattle YMCA

Great learning tools thank you. Lots to use straight away. Real children real situations. I like they way you make us swim teachers feel valued already and that we are just adding more value for our clients. Thank you from New Zealand 🙂

Maxine Parker
This first section already has me opening my eyes to new activities as well as looking at things in a new way!
Jayde Forbes, Ripples Swim School
Such great examples of using techniques and being willing to let them be “ever changing techniques” depending on the moment with the student; ALWAYS meeting him where he IS and then using the techniques to get him to respond and perform the task positively AND experience SUCCESS with the task even if it’s baby steps! Love the way you have him verbalize and talk about skills and then he even extended or stretched his own comfort level from what you were asking of him, so you jumped right on board and made great use of HIS IDEA! I often use that in my teaching too!
Sarah Greiss, Nashville Dolphins

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Swim Whisperers® certification is an ongoing multilevel training program. You must maintain your certification to keep marketing yourself as a Certified Instructor of our Methodology and remain listed on our Swim Angelfish Certified Swim Instructor map.

Swim Whisperers® Certification Validity

The Swim Whisperers® certification is a multi-level training program. To market yourself as a Certified Instructor of our methodology and access associated perks you must maintain your certification.

Maintain Your Certification Annually

To maintain your certification, you must advance through each Swim Whisperers level. Advancement to the next level must occur within 1 year of enrolling in the course level.

Swim Whisperers® Certification Perks

On completion of each level, you will gain access to the Swim Whisperers® Perks.

The Swim Whisperers® Perks include:

  • Full access to your Swim Angelfish® Training Account (Teachable) – to refer to all course materials and information.

  • Inclusion on the Swim Angelfish Certified Swim Instructor Map – so that new clients can easily find you.

  • Membership of the private Swim Whisperers group on Facebook – With over 400 members and growing you will get dedicated answers to your questions from Ailene & Cindy. Support from other certified instructors and access to a network of aquatic professionals. From program development to specific roadblock questions and answers, this group will give you the adaptive aquatic collaboration you are looking for.

  • Ability to participate in our in-water workshops hosted by Level 4 Swim Whisperers®.

The Swim Whisperers® Perks will expire one year after completion of your certification. Once you complete all 4 levels you will have lifetime access to the Perks.

Complete the Course within 90 Days

We recommend completing the Adaptive Swim Whisperers® course within 90 days (about 3 months) from enrollment. This timeframe allows you to consistently build and consolidate your understanding of the course material over three months.

Special Needs Swim Training is Life Changing!

Join us to reduce the drowning statistics and  improve the lives of children facing autism, anxiety, discomfort, trauma, physical and motor challenges! Swim instructors face many obstacles with the rise in special needs students. Swim Whisperers® online training offers strategies to strengthen your curriculum to teach faster with less discomfort.

  • Unintentional drownings are the 5th cause of death in the US, and unfortunately, one out five people who die from drowning are children under 14 years of age. (CDC)

  • Furthermore, the mortality risk among the autism population is twice as high as the general population. (National Autism Association)

  • Drowning remains a leading cause of death for children with autism and accounts for approximately 90% of deaths associated with wandering or bolting by those age 14 and younger. (Autism Speaks)