INFANT SWIMMING RESOURCE
Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) is the safest and ONLY provider of comprehensive swimming and aquatic Self-Rescue™ instruction. Over 40 years of research and development has resulted in an instruction technique that emphasizes developmentally-appropriate skills training to ensure that your child is learning Self-Rescue skills and developing the competence required to safely enjoy the water. Integrated into the skills training of infants and young children is the ISR Parent Education program that seeks to enable the parents and caretakers to understand drowning prevention methods, and thereby, safeguard their child’s aquatic environment.
The ISR Lesson Experience:
Ø ISR Lessons are available to infants and young children 6 months- 6 years old.
Ø These safe and effective lessons are customized to your child and taught one on one. We do not offer group lessons. Your child’s lesson experience will be unique and to provide the safest possible lesson, and my attention will be focused on your baby only throughout the lesson period.
Ø Lessons are no more than 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. In order to master these Self-Rescue skills, the enrollment period is between 4 and 6 weeks.
Ø As a Certified ISR Instructor , I will provide instruction to your child that emphasizes developmentally appropriate skills training, health issues and considerations, ongoing program evaluations, and parent education.
Ø After the initial lesson experience is complete, ISR recommends that every child participates in 1 to 2 weeks of Refresher lessons every 6 months to a year. This will enable your child to learn how to adjust their swimming and floating skills to their continually growing and developing bodies.
Your Child’s Self-Rescue Skills:
Infants (6 months- 12 months old) will learn to hold their breath underwater, roll onto their back and float unassisted.
Children (1 year- 6 years old) will learn the following sequence: how to hold their breath underwater; swim with their head down and eyes open; roll onto their back to float, rest, and breath; and roll back over to resume swimming until they reach the side of the pool and can crawl out, or be rescued by an adult.
Statistics show that 83% of all children who drown are fully clothed at the time. This is why during the final week of lessons, each of my students have the opportunity to practice their Self-Rescue skills in both their summer and winter clothes, under my close supervision. This is an amazing opportunity for the parents to see how their child has learned skills to save him/herself if an accident were to occur. As a parent myself, this helped ease the fear I had for my young daughter around relatives' swimming pools.
Thank you for visiting my website. For any questions you have, or for more information regarding ISR, please send me an email via the "Contact me" portion of this website, or by email at M.Lefay@infantswim.com.
I look forward to the opportunity to work with you and your child.
Infant Swimming Resource, LLC ("ISR") complies with all federal and state laws and regulations and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion or disability. It is the policy of ISR to provide reasonable accommodations to its disabled applicants and students, with the provision of appropriate documentation of the need for the accommodation.
- ISR was founded in 1966 by Dr. Harvey Barnett with the guiding mission “to prevent drowning and enrich the lives of children by teaching them to swim” and to ensure that Not One More Child Drowns.
- Since its creation, ISR has safely delivered over 7 million lessons teaching water Self-Rescue skills to more than 200,000 infants and toddlers. ISR has also educated parents and medical experts nationwide on water safety techniques and proven instruction methods. To date, ISR has 788 documented cases of children using ISR techniques to save themselves from drowning.
- This nationally recognized program is the first and only drowning prevention strategy that has earned a 100% safety record.
- ISR Certified Instructors are trained through an extensive 6 week course guided by a Master Instructor, during which time the Instructor is trained and tested in the academic areas of child psychology, behavioral science, physiology, and anatomy. In addition to gaining an academic foundation, Instructors engage in a minimum of 60 hours of hands on, in water, practical application of the technique.
- The ISR National website is an award winning and nationally recognized site, providing information about water safety and aquatic Self-Rescue training for infants and young children. Please visit www.infantswim.com for the complete ISR Story, as well as to view pictures and videos and read testimonials from parents and doctors.
The ISR Lesson Experience:
Ø ISR Lessons are available to infants and young children 6 months- 6 years old.
Ø These safe and effective lessons are customized to your child and taught one on one. We do not offer group lessons. Your child’s lesson experience will be unique and to provide the safest possible lesson, and my attention will be focused on your baby only throughout the lesson period.
Ø Lessons are no more than 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. In order to master these Self-Rescue skills, the enrollment period is between 4 and 6 weeks.
Ø As a Certified ISR Instructor , I will provide instruction to your child that emphasizes developmentally appropriate skills training, health issues and considerations, ongoing program evaluations, and parent education.
Ø After the initial lesson experience is complete, ISR recommends that every child participates in 1 to 2 weeks of Refresher lessons every 6 months to a year. This will enable your child to learn how to adjust their swimming and floating skills to their continually growing and developing bodies.
Your Child’s Self-Rescue Skills:
Infants (6 months- 12 months old) will learn to hold their breath underwater, roll onto their back and float unassisted.
Children (1 year- 6 years old) will learn the following sequence: how to hold their breath underwater; swim with their head down and eyes open; roll onto their back to float, rest, and breath; and roll back over to resume swimming until they reach the side of the pool and can crawl out, or be rescued by an adult.
Statistics show that 83% of all children who drown are fully clothed at the time. This is why during the final week of lessons, each of my students have the opportunity to practice their Self-Rescue skills in both their summer and winter clothes, under my close supervision. This is an amazing opportunity for the parents to see how their child has learned skills to save him/herself if an accident were to occur. As a parent myself, this helped ease the fear I had for my young daughter around relatives' swimming pools.
Thank you for visiting my website. For any questions you have, or for more information regarding ISR, please send me an email via the "Contact me" portion of this website, or by email at M.Lefay@infantswim.com.
I look forward to the opportunity to work with you and your child.
Infant Swimming Resource, LLC ("ISR") complies with all federal and state laws and regulations and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion or disability. It is the policy of ISR to provide reasonable accommodations to its disabled applicants and students, with the provision of appropriate documentation of the need for the accommodation.