Infant Self Rescue
Infant Self Rescue Swim Lessons
About
Lessons are five days a week, Monday- Friday for 10 minutes. This consistency helps build the students muscle memory for floating and swimming skills. Our mission is "Not one more child drowns." This is the influence and reason behind all that we do in ISR. Lessons are one on one with the instructor which ensures that each lesson is individualized for each student.
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Students are divided into two skill types based on age and their ability to walk:
Infants from 6 months to about 1 year old or children who are not yet walking well learn to "rollback to float." Rollback to Float lessons teach your baby to independently turn themselves onto their back if ever face down in the water to safely breathe, rest, and float on their back. This skill set takes about 4-5 weeks to accomplish.
Toddlers who are walking learn "swim-float-swim." With swim-float-swim instruction, your child can swim underwater until they need to breathe, roll to their back for a few breaths until rested, then swim starting the sequence again. This skill set takes between 6-7 weeks to accomplish
While our first priority is getting children safe in and around the water. Students learn to respect and enjoy swimming in the water.
The water safety skills children learn are skills they use year round. Yes, enjoying swimming during the summer months is one of the highlights but, children are still around the water during cool months. The skills they learn with ISR teach them to save themselves if they were to accidentally fall in the water. During the last week of lessons, students will practice their skills in summer and winter clothes so they can feel the weight difference and make adjustments if they ever need to use their skills with clothes.
Retention of skills year-over-year is incredibly high. Since we teach your child similar to the way they learn to walk or we learn to ride a bicycle- these skills are not something that leave their body unless there was interference from items like floatation devices once skilled.
The one time and non-refundable registration fee is $105 per child and then lessons weekly are $100 a week. My next availability for students is in May with morning and afternoon times available. Spots do fill and I cannot guarantee that time will be open again. Please email me (amanda.pittman@infantswim.com) with any questions. To reserve your space and see the schedule go to the scheduler website.
For more information on ISR contact Amanda at amanda.pittman@infantswim.com or call/text 904-669-4961