Episode 328 - Water Safety Skills
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
So, we already covered safety skills on land. But what about safety in the water? Drowning is one of the most common causes of death in children and those numbers increase significantly for autistic children. In this episode we review the research on how to teach water safety skills. Would you believe, a lot of them include teaching how to swim? That plus other skills that every child should learn and the most effective ways to teach them.
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Articles discussed this episode:
Martin, C. & Dillenberger, K. (2019). Behavioural Water Safety and Autism: a Systematic Review of Interventions. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 6, 356-366. doi: 10.1007/s40489-019-00166-x
Levy, K. M., Ainsleigh, S. A., & Hunsinger-Harris, M. L. (2017). Let's go under! Teaching Water Safety Skills using a behavioral treatment package. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 52, 186-193. doi: 10.1177/215416471705200208
Tucker, M. & Ingvarsson, E. (2021). Teaching water safety skills to children with autism spectrum disorders. Behavioral Interventions, 36, 535-549. doi: 10.1002/bin.1791
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, |
| 0:21.0 | and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello, Rob, it's me, Diana. |
| 0:25.7 | Hi. |
| 0:26.4 | Oh, goodness, I'm sorry. |
| 0:27.7 | I interrupted your Perry Cruz. |
| 0:28.9 | It's okay. |
| 0:29.9 | That's Diana Perry Cruz, and I'm Jackie not Perry Cruz. |
| 0:32.4 | No. |
| 0:32.8 | Jackie MacDonald. |
| 0:34.0 | Jackie MacDonald. |
| 0:35.8 | And this is a podcast about behavior analysis, behavior analytic research, |
| 0:39.7 | where every week we pick a topic and discuss it at length as well as the relevant research |
| 0:44.8 | articles that you could be reviewing. I was going to do segue, but I just came from work because |
| 0:49.7 | this is a new recording time for us. And I don't have time. I'm still at work busy mode. |
| 0:53.8 | Let's get this |
| 0:55.1 | done. So what's our topic this week? Water safety skills. I know we did safety skills. The last |
| 1:00.9 | time we did safety skills, y'all told me you'd never done it. I know we've done safety skills. |
| 1:04.2 | Now we're doing it again. We are doing a specific, very important piece of safety skills. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah. Which focuses around. And because we all know |
| 1:13.6 | that drowning is one of the major reasons that many children with autism or adults die. Oh, I have |
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