lessons
Lessons
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. 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.
Lessons for children 6-12 Months Old
Learning Roll Back-to-Float Sequence
Children who can sit up unassisted and or crawl, typically between 6 months and 12 months of age learn to hold their breath underwater, roll onto their back and float unassisted until help arrives. These skills are usually mastered in an average of 6-7 weeks.
Roll Back-to-Float
Swim-Float-Swim
Lessons for children 1-6 Years Old
Learning the Swim-Float-Swim Sequence
Older, more mobile children will learn the full ISR Self-Rescue® sequence of 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 the shoreline.
Refresher lessons
For Students who have completed the swim-float-swim sequence
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