why ISR
The ISR difference
What your child will learn, and the way he or she will learn it, is what makes ISR so different from traditional swimming lessons. Always putting safety first, ISR emphasizes competence, which leads to confidence, and provides the foundation for a lifetime of enjoyment in and around the water.
What your child will learn depends on his or her age and developmental readiness, but in all cases, at minimum:
Your child will learn to roll onto his or her back to float, rest, and breathe, and to maintain this position until help arrives.
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Why learning to float is so important
Imagine your 8-month-old child falls into the deep end of the pool. Instead of panicking and sinking deeper, they will know to turn to their back and use their bellies and body position to float calmly until help arrives. This is the magic of ISR.
Learn more about Infant Swim Resource
Infant Swim Resource was Founded in 1966 by Dr. Harvey Barnett, a doctor and psychologist. Since its inception, ISR is now the worldwide leader in survival swimming lessons for infants and young children.
Stephanie Hogan, your ISR instructor is one of only hundreds of professional and highly trained ISR Instructors across the globe. Her infant swim lessons will provide the safest and most effective survival swimming lessons available. The ISR Self-Rescue® instruction Stephanie has been qualified to teach is the product of over 45 years of research and achieves unparalleled results.
From ISR: Today, our mission, “Not One More Child Drowns,” is the foundation of everything we do and is the driving force behind ISR’s employees, our independent ISR Instructors, and our major corporate partnerships. We believe the successful prevention of the leading cause of accidental death for children under the age of 4 in the U.S. will require a large group of caring and capable professionals whose sole focus is to save lives. To date, we have delivered more than 8,000,000 ISR Self-Rescue® lessons and saved more than 800 lives.
Naturally, there are boundaries like pool fences, supervision, video surveillance, and pool alarms that are important parts of a multi-layered approach to drowning prevention. However, a staggering 4,000 drowning deaths per year raise a clear and evident fact: the child needs to know how to survive when all else fails to keep them out of the water.
“ISR’s core conviction is that the child is the most important part of a drowning prevention strategy and our over 300,000 ISR graduates and 800 documented survival stories are proof that children can save themselves. “
—JoAnn Barnett, ISR SMI, President and CEO of Infant Swimming Resource
