Language development is a critical part of your child’s overall development. It supports your child’s ability to communicate, express and understand feelings. It also supports thinking and problem-solving, and developing and maintaining relationships. Learning to understand, use and enjoy language is the critical first step in literacy, and the basis for learning to read and write.
My Kindy provides language programs for children from 18 months old to support learning in languages other than English which helps children to improve their overall literacy and understanding of how language in general works.
Education experts have found that there are many benefits to children learning in another language at a young age, including:
- increased literacy
- cognitive flexibility
- bolstering self-esteem and wellbeing
- strengthened cultural identity.