INFANT SWIMMING RESOURCE LESSONS
WITH MIKALAH LAUBERTH
CERTIFIED ISR INSTRUCTOR
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Serving Osage County, Missouri and surrounding areas
GIVE YOUR CHILD THE COMPETENCE, CONFIDENCE AND SKILLS OF AQUATIC SAFETY WITH INFANT SWIMMING RESOURCE'S SELF-RESCUE PROGRAM.
ISR is the safest provider of infant and toddler survival swimming lessons worldwide. With more than 50 years of research and development behind ISR’s Self-Rescue™ program, ISR teaches each child survival skills in conjunction with basic swimming lessons that give them the competence required to safely enjoy the water. To date, ISR Instructors have delivered more than 8,000,000 ISR Self-Rescue™ lessons and saved more than 800 lives.
Empower your child by enrolling him or her in ISR’s Self-Rescue™ program.
Location:
Osage County, MO
Private/Heated/Salt Water/
Indoor Pool
ISR LESSONS
ISR is an extraordinary program and we are constantly striving to expand in order to eradicate the child drowning epidemic facing our children.
One-On-One Lessons
All ISR lessons are one-on-one, student and Instructor. This allows the Instructor to focus fully on the individual needs of the student as all children are unique in their personalities and their cognitive learning abilities. ISR lessons are student directed lessons, tailored to the changing needs of the individual child throughout every moment of each lesson. Although lessons are one-on-one, they are not “closed” to other students and/ or parents. It often helps children to stay engaged when other children are watching their progress and cheering them on.
ISR Structure
5 Days a Week
Consistency and repetition are the foundation to successful and engaged students. Lessons are only ten minutes a day, but the consistency and repetition of five days a week is what builds the skills they need to survive an aquatic environment. The average student will take approximately five to seven weeks to complete the ISR course. All children learn at different speeds, but consistency is a major factor in determining the amount of weeks a student’s lessons will last.
10 Minute Lessons
Lessons are approximately ten minutes a day. ISR lessons are kept short to avoid muscle exhaustion. ISR students work hard to achieve their float and the swim-float-swim sequence and although they are given rests throughout the maximum ten minute lesson, their muscles can fatigue quickly while learning these new skills.
WHAT WILL YOUR CHILD LEARN?
ISR’s unique results are achieved through fully customized, safe and effective, one-on-one lessons with only your child and the Instructor in the water. 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.
Roll-Back-to-Float
(6-18 months)
Your child is gently introduced to the water by the Instructor. As each child reacts differently, the Instructor will work with your child to guide him through the lesson process and to build a level of trust and comfort in the water. Once this is established, your child will begin to learn how to self-rescue.
Think of how your child learned to roll from stomach to back as a young baby. A child 6-18 months will learn:
- To hold their breath underwater
- To roll onto their back
- To float unassisted, rest and breathe until help arrives
- To perform these self-rescue skills first in a swim diaper, then while fully clothed
SWIM-FLOAT-SWIM
(18m-6yrs old)
ISR training for children between 1 and 6 years of age uses their confidence to help them build competence and the skills to self-rescue. Please note that not all 12-24 month-olds are developmentally ready to learn to swim-float-swim. This age group will typically learn to how to do short swim underwater then rollback to float.
Your instructor will work with your child's initial skills to help them gain both competence and confidence around the water. ISR has a deep passion for water safety and will not make your child over-confident or fearless, but will educate your child and teach them a healthy respect for the water.
Children 1 -6 years learn the following sequence:
- To hold their breath underwater
- Swim with their head down
- Roll onto their back to float, rest, and breathe
- Roll back over to resume swimming until they reach the side of the pool, crawl out or be rescued by an adult
- To perform these self-rescue skills first in a swim diaper, then while fully clothed
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REFRESHERS
Refresher lessons are extremely important in continuing and maintaining your child’s Self-Rescue skill development. Children grow and develop rapidly from infants to toddlers and into 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. Refresher lessons are designed to fine-tune your child’s existing ISR Self-Rescue skills to meet the demands of their growing bodies. It will allow them to make adjustments in their float and strengthen their swim. It’s not unusual for children to not swim and float at the same skill level that they did at their last session’s lessons. This does not mean that they have forgotten to swim or float, only that they need to practice their skills in their new, larger, stronger body. The length of the refresher lessons will vary greatly based on the child’s water experience and any interference that may have occurred since the last time they took lessons. On average these are One 10 minute lesson/5 days a week/for about 3 weeks.
MAINTENANCE
Upon completion of lessons, you may see behaviors in the child’s swimming at home that is not consistent with what your child was doing during lessons. This is a natural progression for your child. Maintenance Lessons are designed to fine-tune your child’s skills or to prevent problems from developing in your child’s technique. A few months after completion of ISR lessons, your child may develop unwanted habits out of regular play time in the pool. For example, your child may begin to swim farther without rolling over for a breath or may try swimming with their head out of water. Some habits formed from normal exploration in the water may begin to affect your child’s ability to swim and float. This is a One day a month minimum/10 minute lesson after completion of lessons. This allows for the child's skill to grow with them!
