As drowning risks have come into focus, advocates are trying to make swimming lessons more accessible.

For the first time in 98 years, the Chicago River will host an open-water swim event, inviting 500 experienced swimmers to tackle a two-mile course through the heart of the city’s iconic downtown.

All the students in the class at the Small Fish Big Fish swim school had autism, a developmental disorder linked to a higher-than-average danger of drowning. It has long worried autism experts and ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively ...

The numbers highlight an oft-overlooked dilemma: Autism makes swimming instruction all the more necessary but, often, all the more difficult to get. “It’s life-changing for kids with autism ...

“Swimming lessons should be a first-line treatment for autism,” said Li, a Columbia University epidemiology professor who isn’t involved in the council’s research.