What is ISR?

ISR Stands for Infant Swimming Resource

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.

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 do lessons consist of? 

“ISR lessons are typically held within a 6-7 week timeframe. Your child will have a private, one-on-one lesson five days a week, Monday through Friday.  Your class will be no longer than 10 minutes each day.  He or she will have the same 10-minute time slot each day.  This schedule is key to the retention of skills.  Much is accomplished in a short but intense private lesson, which will be individualized to meet your child's needs and abilities.

Since most children fall into water unsupervised and while they are fully clothed, your baby/child will eventually learn to perform the Self-Rescue skills while fully clothed.

Upon completion of their initial lessons, every child should take either maintenance or refresher lessons to help your child adjust their swimming and floating skills to his/her developing body size.”

- ISR Indy   

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.

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