A PIONEERING visual teaching tool has launched in East Ayrshire making swimming lessons more accessible to everyone.

Cumnock's Visions Leisure Centre will be one of the pools rolling out the new technique.

SwimPix is a collection of waterproof visual instruction cards and is helping to transform how East Ayrshire Leisure Trust, as well as Visions swimming teachers, communicate with their students.

The cards represent the latest learning development in the Learn to Swim National Framework, which currently helps around 81,000 children and adults learn to swim each week across Scotland.

Visions Leisure Centre is one of the pools rolling out the initiative.Visions Leisure Centre is one of the pools rolling out the initiative (Image: NQ Archive) SwimPix features multiple display options, including sequence boards and lesson planners, covering lessons through pictures which children with autism, hearing impairments, or where English isn't their first language who may find it beneficial.

East Ayrshire Leisure Trust and Visions Leisure are two of 37 Learn to Swim providers who are introducing the SwimPix cards in their lessons across 165 pools in Scotland.

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Alison Bell, founder of Aswim, said: “SwimPix are a tried and tested teaching and communication tool for swimming teachers that helps create a more inclusive swimming environment.

“It’s great to see teachers using SwimPix and children having fun in the lesson with the cards.  It really reduces anxieties and helps children know what the teacher is asking them to do, therefore faster learning.”