What Will Your Child Learn?
6-12 months old
ROLLBACK TO FLOAT
Lessons focus on teaching the child the fundamental skill of rolling onto their backs to float, rest, and breathe. Infants and toddlers who are not yet walking will learn to maintain this life-saving position until help arrives.
1-6 years old
SWIM-FLOAT-SWIM
Focus on teaching the swim-float-swim survival sequence. Children learn to swim with their head down; rotate onto their back to float, rest, and breathe; and roll back over to continue the sequence of swimming and floating until they reach safety at the steps, side of pool, or shoreline.
Outer Banks ISR customizes lessons to focus on the ISR skills that are developmentally appropriate for your child and your family’s aquatic activities.
Students attend lessons 5 days per week, Monday through Friday, for 10 minutes each day for an average of 6 weeks.
Statistics indicate that most children who fall into water are fully clothed. Therefore, once students are ready, they will practice their ISR skills fully clothed.
Your child will learn critical survival skills as well as establish a lifelong foundation for a love of water!
Returning Students
REFRESHER LESSONS
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. Most refresher lessons are scheduled as a two-week session, with additional days/weeks added if needed.
MAINTENANCE LESSONS
After completion of a refresher session, many parents choose to keep their child enrolled in maintenance lessons, returning once or twice a week to keep skills top-notch. This can be of benefit by keeping children swimming in the off-season, or during the summer season when the child is exposed to many swimming opportunities beyond ISR lessons.
