Welcome to ISR Swim Kids in Tallahassee
Erin Loewe, Certified ISR Instructor
Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) is a nationally recognized comprehensive drowning prevention program
for infants and young children. The program teaches critical self-rescue swimming skills to babies and children, and it focuses on educating parents and children about aquatic survival
and safety issues.
ISR is more the just swimming lessons. It is the product of more than 40 years of research and development by Dr. Harvey Barnett.
More than 200,000 infants and young children have gone through our program with more than 7 million
safe and effective lessons to our credit.
ISR Instructors are the most highly trained and qualified instructors in any swimming program in the
country and must undergo strict re-certification testing annually. Each instructor is academically trained
and tested in areas such as child psychology, physiology, anatomy and behavioral science to provide the
safest lesson possible for your child. In addition, each instructor spends a minimum of 60 hours hands on,
supervised in-water training working with actual students.
Please visit our award-winning website at www.infantswim.com to
learn more about ISR, the most comprehensive drowning prevention program in the world.
What your child will learn
A baby from 6-12 months will learn how to hold his breath underwater,
roll onto his back and float unassisted until help arrives.
A child 1-6 years old will learn how to hold her breath underwater,
swim with her face in the water, roll onto
her back to float, rest and breathe; then roll back over to resume swimming until they
reach the side of the pool. This is called the ISR swim-float-swim sequence.
All children will learn how to perform the skills in full clothing.
Lessons
Your childs lessons are 5 days a week, Monday-Friday. Each class will be approximately 10 minutes
long with just one child and the instructor in the water. Much is accomplished in a short but very intense
private lesson. Your child will have the same 10-minute time slot each day. You can expect your child
to finish in approximately 4-5 weeks for floating or 5-6 weeks for swim-float-swim.
Refresher Lessons
Upon completion of initial lessons, every child should take a short 1-2 week refresher course the
following year. Infant Swimming Resourece has a retention rate of nearly 100% after one year, but children change quickly and need
to adjust their skills from time to time for their growing bodies.
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