WHAT IS ISR?
Infant Swimming Resource’s Self-Rescue® survival swimming program is a 6 week course. It is scheduled 5 days per week, Monday through Friday. Lessons are 10 minutes each day, with a focus on safe, customized, one-on-one lessons by certified Instructors. ISR’s survival swimming lessons emphasize health, ongoing program evaluations, and parent education to deliver the most effective and safest results in the industry. Children may begin lessons around 6 months of age until 6 years of age.
With more than 45 years of research and development behind ISR's self-rescue program, ISR teaches each child survival skills in conjunction with basic swimming lessons that give them the competence and confidence required to safely enjoy the water.
Lessons for a 6-12 month old
ISR Self-Rescue® lessons give children between the ages of 6 months & 6 years the skills to be comfortable and confident in the water. Our goal is to teach children survival techniques in case they should ever reach the water alone.
Lessons for 1-6 years old
Lessons focus on teaching the swim-float-swim survival sequence. Children learn to swim with their head down; roll onto their back to float, rest, and breathe; and roll back over to resume swimming until they reach the side of the pool, where they can either crawl out or until they can be rescued.
Refresher Lessons
Refresher lessons are extremely important in continuing and maintaining your child’s ISR Self-Rescue™ skill development. Children grow and develop rapidly from infants to toddlers and 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. ​
Maintenance Lessons
Maintenance lessons are also available at any time for regular fine-tuning of your child's skills. These lessons are highly recommended.​
Children ages 1-4 have the highest drowning rates. In 2014, among children 1-4 years old who died from an unintentional injury, one third died from drowning. Among children ages 1-4, most drownings occur in home swimming pools. Drowning is responsible for more deaths among children ages 1-4 than any other cause except for congenital anomalies (birth defects). Among those 0-14, fatal drowning remains the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death behind motor vehicle crashes.
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Sources:
CDC Water Injuries Fact Sheet
World Health Organization on Drowning