抄録
The purpose of this study was to consider the swimming class for the deaf students from the points of water safety and survival swimming. The subjects in this study were 140 college students aged 18 to 22. They were all hearing impaired.
The degrees of concern about water safety and self-judgment of their swimming performance were investigated.
The results were as follows:
1) Over 70% of the subjects were confident of their swimming performance.
2) The order of stroke acquisition were crawl (90.8%), breast (79.4%), back (32.7%), and butterfly (24.1%). This suggested that crawl is considered the most important stroke and instructed at first in Japan.
3) Nobody had experience of learning water safety, and almost every students had poor information about it. The students with hearing impairment could not have adequate image for the swimming with clothes. And they could not have proper information on the case of emergency.
It is concluded that extending their knowledge of the water safety and improving their swimming skills are necessary for prevention of water accidents and self-protection.
