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The Infant Swimming Resource technique and goals are unique. Swimming simply means “to move through the water”.
This definition is very limited to any movement. This is why ISR emphasizes more than just "swimming skills"
ISR strives to provide a comprehensive SURVIVAL SWIMMING program.
Survival swimming is the ability to move through the water independently while breathing effortlessly.
Effort takes energy, and children have limited sustainable energy.
A child swimming and lifting his head to breathe is expending great amounts of energy to attain air.
This technique will soon fatigue a child. The rollback to a float to breathe is effortless offering
unlimited rest and air while in the water, thus equipping the child with aquatic survival skills to potentially
save himself in an emergency situation. Most importantly, the ISR student will have practiced all the SURVIVAL SWIMMING skills while
fully clothed.
The Rollback-to-Float Program (Infants 6-12 months old)- This is a basic survival skill for students who are crawling.
He or she will be taught to rotate from a face-down position in the water to a back float. The baby will be taught to rest
and breathe on his or her back until help arrives. A child who enrolls in the ISR program as an infant will learn the
correct posture for swimming early which will facilitate learning at the next level. The typical infant will approximately
3-4 weeks to attain these skills.
The Swim-Float-Swim Program (Children 1 year to 6 years old)- This series of skills is taught to children who have
begun walking. Toddlers are taught to utilize that cross-coordinated motion for movement through the water.
He or she will be taught to swim face down with eyes open; roll on his or her back to float, rest and breathe
when he or she needs air; and then flip over onto his or her stomach to continue
swimming until he or she reaches a point of safety. This swim-float-swim sequence can be repeated as many times as is necessary
to reach safety. This skill set can be achieved with 5 lessons per week in approximately 4-6 weeks.
Infant Swimming Resource uses a unique set of prompts and
procedures designed to teach both the verbal child and the
non-verbal infant survival swimming skills. The technology
required to teach an infant to handle himself in the water is
primarily found within sensorimotor learning and infant
psychology and development. The practical application of this, however, must be custom-tailored
to your child's physical abilities.
In addition to teaching your child, ISR has developed a complete
program of parent education concerning many facets of drowning
prevention. The Parent Resource Guide is available to all parents
registering their children in the program and it includes such topics
as attitude and emotions, physiology and safety before, during and
after the lessons, family aquatic safety and other valuable information.
Each ISR lesson is one-on-one with the instructor and each lesson
is individualized for each child's needs and abilities. Because
consistency and repetition are important for infants and young
children, each ISR student attends lessons 5 times per week for
approximately 10 minutes per lesson. Research shows that children
learn better in more frequent yet shorter increments. We want to
ensure that your child will be able to focus on the task at hand
and retain that knowledge. These short lessons are one of the
reasons that our students are able to perform independently in such a short
amount of time. Our goal is to provide the most efficient lessons
possible.
The solution to the ultimate aquatic problem: the backfloat.
 
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