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Show Swimming school for the very young opens . t By GARY R. BLODGETT CENTER VILLE - A swimming school to teach infants and young children aquatic survival is being .. Conducted in Centerville. , Infant Swimming Research is a ' nationally based program with 23 years of research aimed - at the safest most . efficient method of teaching young children and infants how to survive in water. -' - Kristy Nelson,'- owner-manager of Centerville, is a young mother; 2" with two small children of her own, ; both of whom are ISR swimmers. She is a 198S graduate of Brigham Young University School of Nurs-. Nurs-. ing, She moved to Centerville last December and is employed in the jpecial-care- nursery - at-' LDS Hospital. Kristy is a certified instructor with ISR and takes an annual recer-. tification class from Dr. Harvey Bamett, founder of the ISR school. She said her goal is to teach parents and children aquatic survival sur-vival so that they are not a statistic ' in the epidemic rate of drownings among children and infants., ... - - "We provide private lessons four . times a week, which enables a child : to learn fast and to retain what has been learned-even up to 95 to 98 . percent after being out of the water , . for one year," she said. "Students " " will progress i at their own rate." - Kristy emphasized that teaching - -a child to swim will enhance their self-esteem and provide confidence in everything that they do. Parents, she said, are encouraged not to go into the water with their child so . that the child will become independent. indepen-dent. LZ. : "When a child learns the ISR method of survival, he or she will revert to this knowledge if ever in a panic or drowning situation," said .' Kristy...- ,"' |
