About
About ISR
Founded in 1966 by Dr. Harvey Barnett, Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) is now the global leader in the industry it pioneered: survival swimming lessons for infants and young children. Our team of more than 1,000 Certified ISR Instructors in more than 20 countries provides the safest and most effective survival swimming lessons available. The ISR Self-Rescue instruction our students receive today is the product of more than 50 years of research and development and has resulted in more than 15 million safe lessons worldwide.
ISR believes that 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.
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.
Meet Your Instructor
Hi, my name is Lindsey, and I live in Virginia Beach with my husband, Curtis Rossoll. We have two boys, Nicholas and Lucas. I love spending quality time with my family, spending time outside, working out, traveling, and reading.
My oldest son went through ISR when he was about two years old. We were always in or around water, so I had to find a program for him to give him the tools to “save himself” if he were to ever fall into a body of water. After talking to some friends, I learned about to Infant Swim Resource. We started lessons right away.
We were two weeks into lessons when my son had to use his skills. My son found his way outside and went to the pool because he wanted a ball that was floating around in my family’s pool, and he fell in. He did exactly what he was supposed to (swim-float-swim) until he got to the stairs and walked out.
As a parent, I knew that getting him into ISR lessons was a good thing, but I didn’t realize the importance of what he was learning until this happened. From that day on, I was compelled to become a part of the ISR team.
I completed my training in April 2020! Since then, I have had the privilege of teaching children survival swimming and educating my community on the ISR program. I am so proud to be a part of an organization whose mission is “Not One More Child Drowns.”
-Lindsey Rossoll, Certified ISR Instructor, Owner Silverline Swim ISR
Is your swim instructor a Certified ISR Instructor?
There are many instructors who say they teach ISR techniques, however, unless they are listed on the ISR Instructor locator on the official ISR website and meet the criteria below, they are NOT Certified ISR Instructors.
All Certified ISR Instructors:
Have an email address ending in @infantswim.com
Can provide parents with a copy of their current ISR Certificate for review
Offer lessons five consecutive days per week, for a maximum of 10 minutes each day
Will require your child to be registered through ISR’s Online Registration Process and approved to begin lessons by our Registration Evaluation Team (approval email will come from an email address ending in @infantswim.com)
Complete the Daily BUDS Discussion form with you prior to each lesson
Can be found on the instructor locator at locator.infantswim.com