As your precious child grows up, their speech and language development will go through many stages. The daycare and child speech therapy programs at Sounds of Success: Preschool and Learning Center in Aiea, HI, will guide your child along the path to literacy. They offer a full day preschool with integrated child speech therapy, as well as after-school speech therapy for children up to age 18. 

When your child is not at the daycare center, you can encourage their speech and language development at home. Here are a few ways to do this, depending on their age: 

• Birth To Two Years: Engage your child in conversation and speech at their level. This can involve making eye contact and imitating their vocalizations. It is also helpful at this stage to encourage them to imitate your non-verbal actions, such as clapping and blowing kisses, as this also teaches fundamental communication and interaction skills.
• Two to Four Years: Talk to your child often and in clear language. Ask them to describe what they are wearing and to answer yes or no questions. Use picture books and photographs to encourage conversation. Singing songs together is also a great way to build literacy skills in a fun way at this stage. They will likely be learning new songs at the daycare center that they can teach you, which will give you a way to reinforce their language development at home.
• Four To Six Years: At this point, you can engage your child in longer and more complex conversations. Give them directions that have multiple steps to follow. Ask them questions about what they are doing at the daycare center and introduce new vocabulary when you are out shopping with them. When you read to them, which you can do often, ask them to describe the pictures they see and the story characters. They can even point to the words on the page as you read.

Sounds of Success: Preschool and Learning Center is passionate about your child’s speech and language development and also about providing them with a quality education at their friendly, clean, and safe daycare center. Support your child’s speech and language development and visit Sounds of Success: Preschool and Learning Center’s website today or call them at (808) 488-2211.