User:Dodger67/Sandbox/Disability swimming

Swimming as a sport for athletes with a disability is regulated by a variety of governing bodies depending on the type of disability the swimmer has.

• Paralympic swimming is for athletes with various physical disabilities, that mainly affect mobility although classes for swimmers with intellectual disabiliy also exist. It is governed by the International Paralympic Committee. The highest level of international competition is the quadrennial Summer Paraplympic Games and in non Paralympic years at the IPC Swimming World Championships.

• Swimming for Deaf athletes is governed by ?????????. The highest level of international competition is the quadrennial Deaflympics governed by the The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (known by its French acronym CISS) etc etc etc...

• Swimming for athletes with intellectual disabilities is regulated by the Special Olympics etc etc etc...

Ideas from User:LauraHale

(copied from User talk:LauraHale#Recent noise about Disability swimming)

• ID swimming is a Paralympic sport, so physical disabilities as a qualifer alone does not work. (And ID can mean Special Olympics or Paralympics. Different purposes and accrediting bodies.) The problem is things get... really confusing. I talked to some one in Spain's Paralympic movement and Spanish Paralympic sport calls all disability sport Paralympic. In Australia though, it is not called that at all. My model would be more para-alpine skiing compared to Alpine Skiing at the Winter Paralympics. Focus on the particular strokes, who governs which disability types, rules for swimming (and for what disability). I had some massive issues with strange renames. Focus on equipment rules. Focus on history. (Not all high level disability swimming was always at the Paralympic games.)

• The easiest information is probably to include information on the different strokes. That information is pretty basic and not suitable to an article on the Paralympics per say.
  • this might be one place to start. I had forgotten about transplant sport, or rather, disability classes for people who have had transplants. It also references deaf sport.
  • this might be another good page to focus on in terms of swimming strokes and how it applies to disability swimming.