Infant Swimming Resource (ISR)

Founded in 1966, Infant Swimming Resource (ISR), with it's Self-Rescue® program, is nationally recognized as the safest provider of survival swimming lessons for infants and young children.

ISR believes pool fences, supervision, and pool alarms are important parts of a necessary multi-layered approach to drowning prevention. However, traditional lines of defense break down, and the over 4,000 drowning deaths per year bear a grim testament to the fact that traditional approaches are missing a key component: the child. 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 over 800 documented survival stories are proof that children can save themselves.

Children are curious, capable, and have an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles like pool fences; at ISR we take that ability and teach them skills to potentially save themselves if they find themselves in the water alone.

Infant Swimming Resource’s Self-Rescue® swimming program is scheduled 5 days per week, Monday through Friday, for 10 minutes each day for an average of 6 weeks.

With a focus on safe, customized, one-on-one lessons by certified Instructors, ISR’s survival swimming lessons emphasize health, ongoing program evaluations and parent education to deliver the most effective and safest results in the industry.

The ISR program is for children 6 months to 6 years of age.

 Lessons for a 6-18 month old focus on teaching the child to roll onto their back to float, rest and breathe, and to be able to maintain this life-saving position until help arrives.

      Lessons for children 18 months-6 years old focus on teaching the swim-float-swim survival sequence. Children learn to swim with their head down; roll onto their back to float, rest, and breathe; and roll back over to resume swimming until they reach the side of the pool, where they can either crawl out or until they can be rescued. 

Statistics indicate that most children who fall into water are fully clothed. Therefore, once the children are fully skilled they will practice their ISR skills fully clothed.

Refresher lessons are extremely important in continuing and maintaining your child's ISR Self-Rescue® skill development. Children grow and develop rapidly from infants to toddlers and young children. This development process represents improved strength, coordination, and a more finely tuned cognitive ability. In accordance with this growth, children enrolled in ISR return periodically to participate in Refresher Lessons.

LESSON LOCATION:

Lessons are located at my private residence located on Carolina Dove Rd. in Weeki Wachee, just north of Centralia Rd. 

Exact address is provided just prior to start date.

COST OF LESSONS AT ISR WEEKI WACHEE:

Lessons are $95 per week. A non refundable deposit of $95 is required at the time of scheduling and covers the first week of tuition. Payments are due on Fridays for the following week. Acceptable forms of payments are cash and via Paypal, through the scheduling system.

A registration fee of $105 is required for all students. This registration fee covers the medical clearance and approval process for all students to ensure that I am delivering the most effective, and safest lessons as possible. 

Scholarship opportunities may be available for families who qualify. Please also see the resource page for more information.