Play with Language
Play-Based and Developmentally Appropriate Language Development Curriculum and Professional Development for Early Childhood Professionals and Parents
Spark Language
Our classrooms are becoming more diverse every year in education. As a teacher who teaches students who speak multiple languages and learn multiple languages at the same time. Education is no longer a monolithic experience where we are constructing knowledge based on one set of values, culture, and ethnicity.
Early childhood education is a span of ages 0-8. However, students are building knowledge in the most critical years at the ages of 0-3. Language is transferred from humans to infants in a direct process of interaction and conversation. There is also a history, culture, and diversity to language that should be embraced in language instruction in the early years. The Developing Language™ curriculum to diversify curricula to enable more students to develop language skills in the early years required for academic success in future grade levels.
Start Conversations
Infants and toddlers require strategic and intentional interactions to support their social, cognitive, and emotional development. Learn more about how you can develop your knowledge of developmentally appropriate practices.
Lesson Resources
Corporative and collaborative activities for preschool students ages 3-4 to practice essential literacy, mathematics, and social skills with engaging themes and read-aloud books. Educators and early childhood professionals can use Developing Language resources in their own classroom with their students. The Developing Resource library contains low-prep materials that can prepare teachers with everything they need for the school year.
Book Professional Development
Learn more by reading the blog, watch videos, or asking questions in our community. Developing Language has easily accessible resources for you to learn more about how to build language for children ages birth to three. All resources are research-based and classroom tested with children of diverse abilities and cultures.
In-Home Services
Does your child need support with building vocabulary, speech, and language skills? A experienced and trained developmental specialist will assess and create an intervention plan specific to the needs of your child right in your home. The developmental specialists can provide resources and materials to support families with play activities that lead to vocabulary, alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness to engage with reading and writing activities.
“My child is using new vocabulary!”
The play-based language program helped my child develop new vocabulary and sparked an interest in reading through play. The curriculum items are easy to implement. I am so happy I chose to purchase the coaching and curriculum program. It has so many resources to spark children’s interest. The in-home services also allowed me to learn how to engage in guided play. My child is building so many new skills every day and using language to better communicate with me and others.
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