Amputees/Dysmelia; cerebral palsy/head injury; spinal cord injury/polio; dwarfism​ 

Others (Major joint restrictions, coordination restriction, limb paralysis/weakness)

Visual Disabilities

Blind; visually impaired

Intellectual Disabilities

History

Para-swimming grew out of several different movements in the 1940's and 1950's. During this time, four international sports bodies, divided by means of medical disability eventually combined to form the modern day paralympic movement. Swimming Canada became the first integrated National Sports Organization in 1993.

Today, a "sport-first" approach is being taken and international groups have moved towards representing specific sports, with consideration of a person\'s disability as a secondary factor. The world sport governing body for persons with a disability, including swimming, is the International Paralympic Committee and it operates with sport specific committees that oversee the development of sport for the disability groups.