ISR: Keeping Your Child Safe During Lessons

Infant Swimming Resource has numerous safety protocols to protect our students. We are committed to providing the safest and most efficient lessons possible. Through extensive instructor education and strict adherence to safety protocols, this technique has provided more than 7 million safe lessons teaching self-rescue skills to more than 200,000 infants and children and has educated parents and medical experts nationwide on water safety techniques and proven instruction methods. To date, ISR has 790 documented cases of children using ISR techniques to save themselves from drowning.


National Registration

The national registration process is a screening tool of each child to ensure they will benefit from and can safely participate in lessons. This information is submitted and reviewed by a team of pediatricians and nurses. In some cases, the instructor will be provided additional directions and protocols to ensure the safest possible lesson for each individual student. The cost of National Registration for new students is $105 and is paid directly to ISR National.

BUDS Sheets

Each lesson will honor the unique physiology of the student. Therefore, instructors ask parents to complete the BUDS sheet so that we may monitor bowel, urine, diet and sleep. This information provides the instructor with possible interferences that may affect lessons. ISR asks that parents do not feed the student for at least 1.5 hours prior to lessons. No one works well on a full stomach, and children are no different.

10 minutes per day lesson

The children will be working hard during this time and the will be tired. Since most younger children do not engage in many activities for longer than 10 minutes, ISR takes advantage of the prime learning span and does not exceed that. Past 10 minutes, the children would lose focus and would not retain as much.

Monitoring Fatigue

ISR monitors students for temperature fatigue. This is a pre-indicator of physical fatigue. This allows the instructor to know how to proceed throughout the course of the lesson.

Hand out after lesson

At the conclusion of the lesson, the instructor will lay the child on their towels on their left side. This will allow the child to rest for a few minutes and will also allow for any air that was swallowed to escape more easily. In addition, this allows the student's blood to flow more freely.

Water and Air Temperature

The water temperature at ISR Swim Kids is typically 85 degrees F. For safety, the water must be between 78 degreees and 88 degrees. Below 78 degrees, students lose body heat too rapidly and experience temperature fatigue quickly. Water temperature over 88 degrees can cause dehydration.

If the air temperature is below 60 degrees at lesson time, we will not swim.