The snow is melting, and the cold temperatures are warming up, which can only mean one thing: summer is coming! Summer and swimming go hand in hand, whether you take your children to your local public ...

As a teenager in high school in Southern California, I took swimming as one of my physical education classes. The first day the teacher assessed everyone’s ability level. He discovered that two of our ...

Children with autism are 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers. Children with autism are 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers, according to the Autism ...

DEAR HELOISE: We live in Arizona, and my husband wanted to put a pool in our backyard. I agreed only if all three kids learned to swim and my husband agreed to teach them. Three years after the pool ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Florida leads the nation in child drownings. We are surrounded by beautiful bodies of water and it’s why swim safety is more than a story. It’s a priority for us. In this “Swim ...

NAVAJO DAM, N.M. — Turning tragedy into something positive. That’s what one family in the Four Corners has done after they lost their 6-year-old son in 2014. He drowned during a trip to Navajo Lake to ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A local nonprofit that provides kids from low-income backgrounds with free swimming lessons needs more financial support after seeing an increase in sign ups. Stages of ...

A brother and sister duo from Essex County is on a mission to decrease grim swimming statistics for Black and brown children by offering them free swimming lessons. Twins Tyna and Tyler Davis have ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The start of a five-week-long camp aimed at teaching children from under-resourced communities the life-saving skill of swimming begins Monday in Philadelphia. The ESF Dream Camp ...

The city of Seattle is launching a swimming program with the goal of addressing the racial disparity in youth drowning deaths. Registration for the pilot program, called Swim Seattle, opens May 16.