Preschool language programs

In the total language immersion classroom at the preprimary level, students are placed for the entire academic year in either full Spanish or full Mandarin Chinese immersion classrooms.

Both lead and assistant teachers speak in either Spanish or Mandarin Chinese. I n the partial language-immersion primary Montessori class, students develop proficiency in English as well as both other languages. In both preschool divisions, language learning is active and interactive. Our preprimary program is geared to our littlest learners, ages 2 and 3 years. Our classrooms are set up to offer an environment that includes the child as the curriculum, which focuses on a balance of structure, play, and social development.

Students learn how to be part of a community through engaging in daily routines. They are encouraged to absorb skills that support independence and develop healthy self-esteem. Half-day options are available as well as diapering services. Lead and assistant teachers speak exclusively in either Mandarin Chinese or Spanish. In the immersion classroom, toddlers absorb language and learn how to respond to and interact with teachers and other classmates.

The focus is on expanding their absorptive capacities rather than on vocabulary. This critical preparation gives them the agency they need to progress academically, socially, and emotionally. Experienced teachers guide toddlers to begin exploring, interacting, and learning. Lead and assistant teachers in both immersion classrooms speak exclusively in the target language.

They are passionate about sharing their language and cultural expertise. One of the most important aspects of the preprimary classroom is learning the daily routines. With structure, toddlers feel secure, which gives them the confidence to begin exploring their rich learning environment and discover their individual affinities. In addition, students are given daily opportunities to use their imaginations to create.

Such creative endeavors not only give them a sense of pride in their work, but also serve to strengthen their fine and gross motor skills. Partnership with families, including daily and weekly communication from teachers, helps guide student progress. This safe, secure space for them to grow in elicits the desire for more independence and exploration.

In our primary program, your child will join a 3- to 5-year-old, mixed-age, child-centered, Montessori preschool classroom.

Mixed ages provides each student the chance to be mentored by an older student as well as to later mentor younger classmates. The opportunity to lead has social and emotional learning benefits. Preschool Programs Our two-level Intro to Spanish preschool programs build foundational vocabulary in the new language through games, music, movement, sensory activities and more.

Using stories, songs and circle time; TLP students develop the skills of listening and deciphering new sounds in the foreign language. Bring TLP Club to your school. Students learn 2through games, music, movement, sensory activities and more! Individual goals are addressed during group and individual activities.

Intervention focuses on the core features of ASD and helps children become more competent communicators while preventing problem behaviors that interfere with learning and relationships.

We provide behavioral therapy with a developmental perspective. Speech-language pathologists trained in the SCERTS program are assisted in the classroom by graduate student clinicians. The program is designed to improve communication individually and in a social context, and serves as a supplement to individual aural re habilitation and speech-language therapy.

Little Listeners focuses on increasing listening, language, and speech skills through listening without the use of visual communication. The group is led by a speech-language pathologist with the support of graduate student clinicians. PLDP is a therapeutic program designed for children ages 3 to 5 years with language disorders.

It is led by a speech-language pathologist with support from graduate student clinicians to maintain a one-to-one ratio of child to clinician. In a classroom setting, participants receive intensive group language intervention and participate in developmentally appropriate activities within thematic units to address individual speech and language goals. The goal of the program is to create a natural environment through which children can improve communication abilities with adults and same-age peers in order to prepare themselves to be successful in mainstream preschool or kindergarten classrooms.

A one-to-one ratio of clinician to child ensures that children have adult support in their attempts to participate and communicate in group activities and individual speech-language therapy. This group program is designed to improve communication in children ages 2 — 3 years. Events Give Now. Calendar Employment. Faculty Faculty Positions Callier Library. Search Results for:. Evaluations Our certified, licensed staff of speech-language pathologists provides in-depth, comprehensive evaluations to accurately describe and diagnose speech, language and feeding disorders, as well as provide appropriate treatment recommendations and necessary referrals.

Age group: Children of all ages. Feeding Delays and Disorders Purpose: to assess children who have suspected sensory or motor-based feeding disorders. Motor Speech Disorders Diagnostic Clinic Purpose: to assess children who have a complicated, unclassified or ambiguous speech sound production disorder. Age group: 2 to 18 years of age. Individual Speech-Language Therapy Our professional speech-language pathologists work with children individually to provide intensive, one-on-one, family-centered therapeutic intervention.