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Ava White students benefit from active lessons

Swimming, martial arts help kids with disabilities

Griffin Hatcher, 12, and Ethan Edwards, 13, work on their freestyle strokes during swimming lessons at Frances Meadows Aquatic Center on Thursday, October 1, 2015. Fifteen Ava White Academy students are currently taking swimming lesson Tuesdays and Thursdays at Frances Meadows Aquatics Center with the Neverland Aquatics company. - photo by Erin O. Smith

1003AVA 0005 — Griffin Hatcher, 12, and Ethan Edwards, 13, work on their freestyle strokes during swimming lessons at Frances Meadows Aquatic Center on Thursday, October 1, 2015. Fifteen Ava White Academy students are currently taking swimming lesson Tuesdays and Thursdays at Frances Meadows Aquatics Center with the Neverland Aquatics company. - photo by Erin O. Smith

Many children don’t have access to quality swimming lessons. Fewer get a chance to take Taekwondo. Even fewer children get a chance to do both when they have a learning or behavioral disorder.