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Toddlers

• Toddler Full Day Childcare

  • 20 months to 3 years old
  • 7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Extended care option until 6:45 p.m.
  • Two, three, four or five days a week
  • Toilet training and developing independence are integral parts of this program.
  • Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are included in tuition.

  Our Toddler Program promotes the beginning of independence while ensuring that children succeed in their environment.

  Caring teachers help toddlers learn how to respond appropriately socially, manage their own emotions, broaden their receptive and expressive language skills and develop more refined gross and fine motor abilities.

  Experienced teachers encourage learning by inviting play, active exploration and creative movement and they continually engage children in thoughtful conversation as they encourage children to try new activities and experiences.

  As children demonstrate readiness, teachers work with families to help children succeed with toilet training.

• Toddler Half Day Enriched Program

  • Ages 20 months - 3 years
  • 9 a.m. to noon
  • Two, three, four or five days a week
  • Snack included

  For families who need less than our full day Toddler program, but want their children to have the developmental benefits of a rich, stimulating environment and peer group, our Half Day Toddler Program offers the perfect alternative.

  This program uses the same curriculum as our full day program, but compresses the day to structure activities and routines that focus on building the skills that toddlers need.

  Language development, independence, sense of self and others, toilet training and physical growth and development are all key aspects of this program.

• Talking Tots

  A Half-Day Speech & Language Program for Toddlers

  The F.M. Kirby Children’s Center offers Talking Tots, a half-day toddler program with an intensive focus on speech and language acquisition and development. Talking Tots is taught by a specially-trained teaching team under the direction of licensed pediatric speech and language pathologist, Margot Tobias, M.S., CCC/SLP. The program is appropriate for children from 18 months to 3 years old.

  Talking Tots is designed:

  • To provide intensive language-based instruction to promote early language development
  • To motivate and engage children who are late talkers
  • To give children a nurturing, balanced, non-threatening environment to gain speech confidence
  • To supply children with essential reinforcement for conventional speech intervention goals
  • To build correct speech patterns, early language acquisition and strong communication skills
  • To empower children through the use of language

  Talking Tots:

  • Encourages confident and expanded receptive and expressive language
  • Develops pre-reading interest and readiness
  • Builds vocabulary, syntax, semantics and phonology
  • Promotes confident social interaction and self-esteem through the use of language
  • Takes advantage of toddlers' sensitive period for speech/language acquisition
  • Empowers children to find their voices and be effective communicators
  • Develops the whole child using a language intensive, state-approved curriculum