ISR Lessons
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One-On-One Lessons
Each student is taught one-on-one by your Certified ISR instructor. Each lesson is individualized to the child’s needs and abilities and each child is safely guided through the learning process. Your ISR Instructor will work with your child's initial skills to help him gain both competence and confidence around the water. ISR has a deep passion for water safety and will not make your child over-confident or fearless, but will educate your child and teach them a healthy respect for the water. NO CHILD IS EVER THROWN INTO THE WATER!
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10 Minutes A Day - 5 Days A Week
Because consistency and repetition are necessary components of learning for infants and young children, ISR students attend a one-on-one, 10-minute lesson daily, Monday through Friday, for approximately 6 weeks to complete either the Rollback-to-Float or Swim-Float-Swim program. Though the lesson length may seem short, research shows that this 10-minute window of learning provides the safest, most effective lesson possible for infants and young children.
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The Sooner, The Safer
After going through the ISR Self-Rescue® program, your child will have an excellent swimming foundation. They will have learned good breath control, head and body posture, and swim movement. Students go on to use their skills for learning stroke work and rotary breathing and because the little ones are competent, happy swimmers, families enjoy being in and around the water together.
Rollback-To-Float
Infants to Early Walkers
Starting at 6 months old, these lessons focus on teaching the child to roll onto their back to float, rest and breathe, and to be able to maintain this life-saving position until help arrives. This is the most important component to ISR swimming lessons. Teaching a child to find their float from every position possible, equips them with the lifelong skill to Self-Rescue®.
Swim-Float-Swim
Solid Walkers
The Swim-Float-Swim program begins with teaching breath control and the skills to turn around in the water to secure the edge of the pool. Children learn correct swimming posture, movement through the water, the rollback-to-float, as well as rotating to a face down position to continue to swim with face in the water and eyes open. This swim-float-swim sequence can be repeated until safety is reached. All students eventually practice their skills wearing a regular diaper (if not potty-trained), clothing, and shoes, because aquatic accidents can take place anywhere, anytime!
Maintenance Lessons
Maintenance lessons are available anytime after becoming skilled in ISR Self-Rescue®. Some parents and their children opt to continue lessons to maintain and practice their skills and simply because they love swimming! It is up to each individual family how they choose to protect their investment. Our recommendation is twice a month to start if you desire to maintain your child’s skills, OR 1-2 times per week if you’d like to build on your child’s skills. If more are necessary, we can easily add them. If we find twice a month is more than enough, we can always adjust.
Refresher Lessons
Refresher Lessons are extremely important in continuing and maintaining your child’s Self-Rescue skill development. Children grow and develop rapidly from infants to toddlers and into young children. This development process represents improved strength, coordination, and a more finely tuned cognitive ability. In accordance with this growth, children enrolled in ISR return periodically to participate in Refresher Lessons. Refresher lessons are designed to fine-tune your child’s existing ISR Self-Rescue skills to meet the demands of their growing bodies. It will allow them to make adjustments in their float and strengthen their swim. It’s not unusual for children to not swim and float at the same skill level that they did at their last season’s lessons. This does not mean that they have forgotten to swim or float, only that they need to practice their skills in their new, larger, stronger body. The length of the refresher lessons will vary greatly based on the child’s water experience and any interference that may have occurred since the last time they took lessons.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ‘DROWN-PROOF’
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ALWAYS USE PROPER SUPERVISION