What Your Child Will Learn
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. Your ISR Instructor will customize your child’s lesson experience to focus on the ISR skills that are developmentally appropriate for your child and your family’s aquatic activities.
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.
Rollback to float
All students, even those as young as 6 months old, learn the fundamental ISR skill of rolling onto their backs to float, rest, and breathe. Infants and toddlers who are not yet walking well will learn to maintain this position until help can reach them, and it's just as important for our older students as they incorporate more swimming skills.
Swim Float Swim
As toddlers and young children gain more physical skills on land, they are ready to learn more skills in the water as well. ISR teaches children to swim a short distance, rotate onto their back to a floating position, and then turn over to continue the sequence of swimming and floating until they can reach safety at the steps, side of the pool, or shoreline.
About Infant Swimming Resource
ISR is the global leader in the industry it pioneered in 1966: survival swimming lessons for infants and young children. Highly trained ISR Instructors provide safe and effective survival swimming lessons designed specifically for each child. The ISR lessons students receive today are the result of decades of research and experience, helping achieve unparalleled results in pools around the world.
ISR’s mission, “Not One More Child Drowns,” is the foundation of everything we do. This mission continues to drive ISR Instructors and the organization’s commitment to helping protect children in and around the water.
To date, ISR has delivered more than 19 million ISR Self-Rescue™ lessons. ISR believes in multiple layers of defense against aquatic accidents, including pool fences, alarms, and active adult supervision. However, these traditional layers of protection can break down, which is why ISR believes the child is an important part of a drowning prevention strategy.
With more than 450,000 ISR graduates and hundreds of documented survival stories, children have shown that they are capable of learning skills that may help them in an aquatic emergency. Children are naturally curious and capable, and ISR uses those abilities to teach them the skills to potentially save themselves should they ever reach the water alone.
