The Impact of a Freestyle Swimming(crawl) Curriculum on the Development of Some Kinetic Capabilities of Children with Cerebral Palsy (12-14)

Abstract

The aim of this research was to prepare an educational curriculum for freestyle swimming education and identify its effectiveness in teaching teaching and learning freestyle swimming to female children with cerebral palsy (12-14 years). The study also aimed to measure the impact of the proposed curriculum in developing some motor abilities on the part of female children with cerebral palsy at ages (12-14). The one independent group experimental method was followed by using pre-post test to measure the impact of the proposed curriculum on developing the identified abilities. The sample consisted of four children. In addition, an exploratory study was conducted on three children with cerebral palsy who were out of the study sample. The study results reveal that the proposed curriculum had a positive impact on learning freestyle swimming in terms of horizontal buoyancy on the abdomen with frontal flow with the movement of the two legs for a distance of 10 m for children with cerebral palsy of the lower limbs, ages 12-14 years. In addition, the results show a positive effect of applying the proposed curriculum on the development of the fixed and dynamic balance of children with cerebral palsy of the lower limbs (ages 12-14).