At Kids & Company, we encourage parents and guardians to reinforce signs at home
Sign Language is incorporated into Kids & Company infant and toddler program to enhance the communication between caregiver and child. Introducing children who are still non-verbal (not yet talking) to sign language is essential in providing them with the confidence to share their needs and wants with caregivers.
Signing skills also help minimize some of the frustration and resulting tantrums that toddlers experience when they cannot make themselves understood. During the implementation of sign language, it is critical that the caregiver associate their verbal language with the physical sign so that the child begins to make the connection between spoken word and the sign representing that word.
At Kids & Company, we encourage parents and guardians to reinforce signs at home. You’ll be surprised how quickly babies and toddlers catch on! The weekly sign is communicated each week through Kids & Company’s social media channels. We also provide parents with a handy Sign Language Glossary that visually demonstrates commonly used signs.
Kids & Company was founded in 2002 by Victoria Sopik, a lifelong entrepreneur and mother of 8, and Jennifer Nashmi, a Chartered Accountant and mother of three.
They founded Kids & Company when they, two working mothers of a combined 11 young children, could not find truly flexible child care options without a trade-off in quality of care.
Their mission is to offer high quality flexible child care, and to continue to innovate in the child care space, to meet the ever-evolving needs of families.
Kids & Company delivers on this mission, providing high quality full time and part time care at over 150 locations throughout North America. Password-protected web cameras are installed in each classroom at the majority of these locations and provide a real-time video feed of our childrens’ days.
We also have a mobile app, Kindertales, where parents get notifications with images and updates about the activities their child is enjoying, what their child has eaten (and how much), nap times, diaper changes, and more!
In our classrooms, we follow an emergent or cue-based approach to learning that allows students to lead their own discoveries.
Supplemented by our proprietary programs, which include pre-literacy and reading, artistic expression, and music and movement, children develop independence, confidence and a positive sense of self and the world around them.
Founded on a fresh from-scratch philosophy, the Kidco Kitchen provides our children with a hot lunch and 3 snacks each day at the majority of our locations.
Our ethnically diverse menus help children to develop their pallet at a young age and become more adventurous eaters. Ingredients are carefully planned and purchased locally, containing no additives or preservatives.
Beyond the classroom, we have also created an innovative Corporate Membership program where we work with corporations to help create more harmonious work-life integration for their employees.
This introductory course in American Sign Language (ASL) teaches students to manage everyday communication in ASL and integrate deaf culture and deaf community content.
In this program, you progress toward ASL fluency, study Deaf culture and explore the cross-cultural issues that arise for non-Deaf people who wish to work with the Deaf community.
American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most popular foreign language, leading third in language course enrolments in post-secondary institutions in the U.S. after Spanish and French, according to Modern Language Association (2016).
Immerse yourself in American Sign Language (ASL) while learning Deaf culture and community, social justice, and Deaf and ASL literature
This non-accredited course offers the student an opportunity to develop the communication skills needed in ASL to interact, socialize, or associate with Deaf people.
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