Locations and Times
Now scheduling lessons for Spring/Summer 2009:
| Start Date |
Lessons
(5 d/wk) |
Timeslots
(in 10 minute
increments) |
Location |
Cost |
| May 4 |
M-F |
9:00-2:30 PM |
Private Facility
Ambler / Ft. Washington |
$100/wk |
| TBA |
M-F |
TBA |
Ambler YMCA
Ambler, PA 19002 |
$95/wk* |
*plus $50 program membership for the Ambler Y.
Because the program requires 5 consecutive days / week, weekend lessons are not possible. Evening lessons are not offered at this time.
Refresher and maintenance lessons may be scheduled from May 4 thru June 15, 2009.
Please email me at b.gorman@infantswim.com to ask about the program and lesson scheduling in more detail.
About Lessons
Students are taught one-on-one with Certified ISR Instructor Barbara Gorman. Each lesson is individualized to the child's needs and abilities. Because consistency and repetition are necessary components of learning for infants and young children, ISR students attend lessons 5 times per week for approximately 10 minutes per day. Though the lesson length may seem short, most toddlers do not spend more that 10 minutes focused on any one activity. Research shows that this 10-minute window of learning provides the safest, most effective lesson possible for infants and young children.
The Rollback-to-Float program teaches breath control, correct floating posture and the skills to attain a backfloat and remain floating for varied periods of time. All students eventually practice their skills wearing a regular diaper, clothing, and shoes because aquatic accidents can take place anywhere, anytime!
A child one year of age or older is taught to swim with his face in the water and eyes open. He rolls over onto his back to rest and breathe. He then rotates back onto his stomach to continue swimming towards the edge of the pool and safety.
Click here to watch an ISR Philadelphia
student showing of his Survival Swim skills.
After going through the ISR drowning prevention program, your child will have an excellent swimming foundation. She will have learned good breath control, head and body posture, and swim movement. Students go on to use their skills for learning stroke work and rotary breathing. And because the little ones are competent, happy swimmers, families enjoy being in the water together.
In subsequent seasons, it is recommended that students enroll in refresher lessons. Refresher instruction will sharpen and refine skills for each child, reacclimate her to skills learned when her body was smaller and in a different stage of development, and ready her for the current summer season. Between the ages of four and seven, students often move on to YMCA or comparable aquatic programs which teach side breathing and the traditional swimming strokes.
For daily lesson requirements, forms, and protocols please go to Parent Resources.
Lessons are held five days a week, Monday through Friday, averaging 4-6 weeks to complete either the Rollback-to-Float or Swim-Float-Swim program.
|
ISR National Registration Fee (new students) |
$105 |
|
ISR National Registration Update (refreshers) |
$35 |
|
One Week of Lessons
Private Facility
Ambler YMCA |
|
$100
$95*
|
|
Maintenance lesson |
$20 each |
* If your child is not already a full member or program member at the Ambler Y or one of it's affiliate branches (Abington, Christian Street, Columbia North, Hatboro, Main Line, Northeast, Rocky Run, Roxborough, or West), he/she will need a $50 program membership. With a program membership, your child can enroll in any paid programming offered by these Philadelphia YMCAs for one calendar year.
The ISR program consists of one 10 minute lesson per day, 5 days a week. The weekly lesson fee of $100 is due each Friday for the following week. You are paying for a time slot for your child, and there is no credit given for student absence or cancellation. Credit for lessons cancelled by the instructor due to weather or other factors will be credited to the students for the following week's lessons.
After Registration is submitted and approved, parents will be contacted by the Instructor. Parents can then submit a payment for the first two weeks of lessons to the instructor and schedule the student for a timeslot. Subsequent payments are due to the Instructor each Friday before the next week's lessons.
Please email me at b.gorman@infantswim.com to ask about the program and lesson scheduling in more detail.
