Learn about ISR
ISR’s unique results are achieved through fully customized, safe and effective, one-on-one lessons with only your child and the Instructor in the water.
How it Works
What your child will learn, and the way he or she will learn it, is what makes ISR so different from traditional swimming lessons.
Always putting safety first, ISR emphasizes competence, which leads to confidence, and provides the foundation for a lifetime of enjoyment in and around the water.
What your child will learn depends on his or her age and developmental readiness, but in all cases, at minimum, your child will learn to roll onto his or her back to float, rest, and breathe, and to maintain this position until help arrives.
Rollback to Float
Infants + Young Toddlers will learn the ISR Self-Rescue skill of rolling onto their backs to float, rest and breathe. They learn to maintain this position until help arrives.
Swim Float Swim
When an instructor deems a child developmentally ready, they will learn the full ISR Self-Rescue sequence in the water. First, they will practice swimming until they need air, rotating onto the back to float,
then rolling back over to continue swimming. ISR students are taught to repeat this sequence until they reach the safety of the steps, side of the pool, or shoreline.
Maintenance
Students who have been previously skilled in Maintenance Lessons are designed to fine tune the student’s skills, or to prevent problems with the child’s technique for returning families only. As a child’s confidence in the water grows, they may try to experiment with new behaviors or try to emulate siblings or adults. This may negatively affect his or her ability to swim or float. These lessons are conducted periodically, based on the Instructor’s assessment of need and the parent’s scheduling preferences.
Maintenance Lessons are suggested for most students at a cadence of 1-3 one time, pay-as-you-go lessons per week when available. Every child is different and might only need 1-2 lessons per month.
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Refreshers
Refresher Lessons are a condensed version of initial lessons and are offered on at least an annual basis for returning families only. Because children grow rapidly, physically and mentally, during the course of a year and are continually developing new skills, these lessons assist the child to adjust their previously mastered skills to their new bodies. It is not unusual for children to not swim or float at the same skill level that they did during the previous season’s lessons. This does not mean that they have "forgotten" to swim or float, it means that they need to practice their skills in their new larger, stronger body. The length of refresher lessons will vary based on the child’s water experience and any interference that may have occurred since the last lesson.
Refresher lessons are geared towards skill advancement. Students return for 3-6 weeks to advance their current skill set. For example, an infant would return for a swim-rollback to float sequence.
Refresher Lessons are highly recommended every 3-6 months to adjust your child's skills to their growing body.
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