Children's Learning Connection - Orange County, CA

Programming Tailored For Infants/Toddlers, for Preschoolers, and for Kindergartners

The abilities of the typically developing child to gain your attention and engage you in communication are amazing! Infants and toddlers share their thoughts by gesturing and verbalizing. They reference you and engage you in reciprocal communication. They are captivated by your facial expressions and react to them. They are social little beings. The skills developed during this first year of life are foundational to learning how to learn. As such, CLC has based our core curriculum for infants and toddlers on typical development. We have extensive experience working with children as young as 3 months.

In our work with infants and toddlers, we have been able to pinpoint key “learning how to learn skills” that prepare a child to move into more typical methods of learning. Preschoolers who exhibit these foundational skills are better learners and are able to use these skills successfully in a preschool setting, as well as to continue learning on their own. This is the time period when treatment in the social setting is introduced. Children may continue to receive one-to-one services in addition to attending their local preschool with support services. CLC continues to use a curriculum that follows the model of typical development in this phase of treatment.

The Kindergartner is at an exciting stage of development! In many cases the child will be entering a typical Kindergarten classroom, with or without some level of support. CLC uses a developmental curriculum, allowing the child to become an independent learner and to establish pre-academic skills. More importantly, this is the phase where earlier developed skills come together to allow the child to establish friendships, take others’ perspectives and to problem solve.