Teach them safety for life — starting in the water.

Little swimmers. Big safety.

One-on-One Survival Swim Instruction

Every child is unique — and every child deserves the skills to stay safe in and around the water, no matter their age. Our private, individualized ISR lessons are customized to match your child’s specific needs, pace, and personality. With focused, one-on-one instruction, your child learns vital self-rescue skills step by step while building confidence, safety, and independence with every lesson.

Refresher lessons

Children grow and change quickly during their early years, and their swim skills should grow with them. Refresher lessons are shorter sessions designed for students who have already completed ISR training and need to keep their skills sharp. These lessons help reinforce self-rescue techniques, adjust for changes in size and coordination, and ensure your child stays confident and capable in the water year after year.

Maintenance lessons

Maintenance lessons offer ongoing practice for children after completing their initial ISR training. These short, regular sessions—whether weekly, monthly, or seasonally—help keep self-rescue skills sharp and support lasting confidence and safety in the water. Contact us to find the maintenance schedule that’s right for your child!

FAQs
Will my child need additional lessons?
Based on our research, we know that refresher lessons are important because children change so much both cognitively and physically during the first 0-5 years of life. It is important that their water survival skills grow with their bodies. Frequency depends on the child's age, growth rate, skill level and confidence level. The goal of refresher lessons is to help your child adjust his/her new body size and weight to his/her existing skill level. Your instructor will work with your child to help fine-tune his or her aquatic experience to assist with building efficiency, which will result in self-confidence. This is especially important if your child has not been able to practice any appropriate aquatic skill between seasons.
How do you teach them to hold their breath?
Breath holding skills are taught beginning with the first lesson. We shape breath control using highly effective positive reinforcement techniques. We continue to reinforce these breath-holding techniques throughout every lesson.
I hear you say your priority is survival skills. Will my child learn to actually swim?
Yes. At ISR, we believe that part of survival for a child who can walk is swimming. Children learn the swim-float-swim sequence so that they could get themselves to safety. The difference in our program is that they will learn swimming AND survival skills and how to be an aquatic problem solver.
What other benefits does the ISR lesson experience provide students?
Every child is unique. However, many parents report that once their young children have mastered learning to swim, the resulting confidence in their abilities engenders a positive self-concept that is often demonstrated in other aspects of their personalities. There are also obvious health and other psychological gains.

Because every child deserves the skills to survive

and the confidence to swim.

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