I just sent an email to the YMCA where my son started taking PE lessons. I told them I needed help finding swimming lessons and advice for improving his coordination, strength and endurance and I also told them there was no way I could afford to pay more than $40 a month. I am waiting to see what they suggest.

I hope they won't be like the public school and tell me that they have never seen another kid like him and I will be left with trying to figure it out on my own.

When my son was almost four his three year old friend next door drowned in a backyard swimming pool. My son did not want to take lessons then. This might be part of the reason he is afraid in the pool.