About the Course
The Puggles Swim online Course has been developed in partnership with Swim Coaches and Teachers Australia (SCTA), AUSTSWIM, leading swim instructors and course developers. It will up-skill swim teachers, arming them with key Auslan signs and increase their deaf awareness.
It delivers the tools and skills to overlay current learn-to-swim classes with deaf-friendly tactics. This will allow you and your swim school to include deaf or hard of hearing children in your swim classes.
The course takes a minimum of 3-hours and must be completed within three months. On completing the course, a swim teacher will receive a certificate recognising their new skills, earning them 3 Professional Development Points.
Your pool will also be eligible for a range of Puggles Swim assets so you can promote your new skills.
Puggles Swim has a specially designed swim kit to complement the course learnings. It includes cute floating characters, kickboards, stories, and waterproof Flashcard packs – featuring Auslan signs.
Latest News:
We’re excited to announce Royal Life Saving Society – Australia has endorsed Puggles Swim! We will be collaborating with RLSSA on a new Puggles Swim program.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing the course you will become a Puggles Skipper and be able to:
Confidently include a deaf or hard of hearing child in your current learn-to-swim lessons.
Understand: the difference between being deaf or hard of hearing, and the types of hearing loss.
Be ‘deaf aware’ – understand what it means to be deaf and how to connect with deaf people.
Develop a basic library of Auslan signs for swim relevant words.
Join a skilled community of deaf-aware swim teachers creating inclusive communities.
Pricing
Puggles Swim Course
- $90 per individual
- $480 per swim school (up to six individual teachers)
To contact the team directly please email: pugglesswim@deafchildren.org.au
We’d like to thank our partners, AUSTSWIM and Swim Coaches and Teachers Australia, who have both endorsed Puggles Swim and helped us develop the program. We’re also excited to announce our most recent endorsement, Royal Life Saving Society – Australia.
