Workshops
Want to help your baby, toddler or preschooler thrive?
Focusing on building early language skills is a great way to foster connection in infants and bolster later Kindergarten readiness.
Giving your young child great speaking and listening skills is one of the most important things you can do to set your child up for social and academic success. Oral language skills are the foundation for all of the learning your child will do throughout his life.
That’s because oral language skills set the stage for later reading and writing, as well as friendship/social skills. Research shows that students who don’t have strong comprehension and expressive skills are more likely to struggle with later academic tasks in school.
Each language skill builds on the one before it, so it’s important to begin early.
We offer a variety of individual and group-based classes that help you better understand what skills are age-expected and how to foster language success every step of the way.
We believe that helping you and your child connect and communicate will allow your child and your family to thrive.
We are now enrolling in community language workshops via a partnership with the Town of Cary. Limited space is available for our Summer workshops. In addition, decreased prices for these workshops reflects our mission to increase the accessibility of early childhood parent education. Sign up for our Summer language workshops here in the Special Interests, under Early Language Learning.
Class Topics Available
Introduction to Baby Sign Language
This fun workshop for babies, toddlers, and parents will explain how the use of sign language can actually help your child learn to speak more quickly and how you can build your bond with your baby through early signs. This workshop will present baby sign language as a learning tool for verbal speech and will not focus on signs as the only means of communication.
Language Milestones 0-4
This information-packed workshop will answer your questions about when to expect specific language skills and how you can support development.
Maximizing toddler language development
This workshop, designed to support language acquisition between 15 and 36 months, will offer a roadmap for using games and movement to support language learning.
Using language to get Kindergarten ready
This workshop for preschool parents and caregivers will outline how phonological awareness is critical to later academic skill development, especially in Reading. You will learn essential skills your child will need in Kindergarten and how to use language games to make practicing these skills a blast for your child.
