Early Childhood Development
Baby Signs by Tina C. offers play classes to teach beginning signs to hearing babies eight to 14 months. Each class in the 6-week series introduces a new set of signs along with parent education topics to help parents understand how babies learn and develop language. A take-home kit is included with board books, music CD, and other reference items to continue signing at home. Babies are exposed to the signs and parents leave with a robust set of signs that allow them into their babies world of thoughts, interests, feelings and memories! The infant-parent bond is strengthened and babies get a head-start on confidence, high self-esteem and early literacy not to mention stress reduction for baby and parent! Only a few classes are taught each year so get in while you can. An additional class is also offered for older toddlers (14 – 24+ months). If parents don’t see a class scheduled on the Baby Signs website they can contact Tina to express an interest and talk about class locations.
Home trainings are available for parents who can’t attend a weekday play class.
Additional classes include a sibling class (older siblings 2-5 years and baby – expecting to 6 months) and a four-week-series tummy time class to help babies learn to love this ever-important stage of their development.
512-814-0004
babysignsbytinac@gmail.com
Facebook: @babysignsbytinac
Twitter: @babysignsbytina
Youtube: @Tina Cavanaugh
Brilliant Sky Toys & Books
Toy and book retail from 0 – 12 years of age.
701 Capital of Texas Hwy. D-480
Austin, TX 78746
512-347-8697
atxmanager@brilliantskytoys.com
Facebook: @Brilliant-Sky-Toys-and-Books-Austin-Texas-110617505621729/?fref=nf
Instagram: @brilliantskyatx
Community Montessori School
The mission of Community Montessori School is to provide authentic Montessori education in a nature-rich environment that cultivates collaboration, curiosity, love of learning, and respect for oneself, others, and the world. We offer child care and schooling for children ages 8 weeks to 12 years of age.
500 Pleasant Valley Drive
Georgetown, TX 78626
512-863-7920
Facebook: @communitymontessorigeorgetown
Instagram: @cmsgeorgetown
Pinterest: @communitymo0522
Conscious Baby
Your baby’s first year is key. Babies are born with innate abilities to learn, communicate, and progress through motor milestones. I’ll show you how to preserve those abilities from the beginning and help you create a magical connection with your baby.
By truly regarding your baby or toddler as a respectable person, meeting him/her on her level, allowing her to lead the way in her development, and communicating in a connected way, you’ll raise a happy, confident child grounded in the foundations you want for her. But doing this can be very confusing because many of today’s parenting practices actually override babies’ innate abilities and create unintended outcomes. Let me help you pinpoint what you want and how to get there.
Eliza Parker, Infant Development Specialist
Austin, TX
919-469-0519
eliza@consciousbaby.com
Facebook: @consciousbabyblog
Creative Action
At Creative Action, our mission is to spark and support the academic social and emotional development of young people.
Each week we host Saturdays at the Center, where children 0-7 + their families are invited to engage in music, dance, art and theatre classes at the Center for Creative Action. Saturdays at the Center focus on the arts and the developing child, relation based parent/child curriculum and foster community building with parents and children.
2921 E. 17th Street
Bldg. B
Austin, TX 78702
512-442-8773
info@creativeaction.org
Facebook: @creativeactionaustin
Twitter: @creativeatx
Instagram: @creativeaction
Heartsong Music
We teach Music Together®, the internationally recognized music and movement program for children from birth through grade two and the adults who love them.
2700 W. Anderson Ln., Ste. 320
Austin, TX 78757
512-371-9506
heartsong@heartsongmusic.net
Facebook: @heartsongmusic
The Signing Connection
I am Amy McKnight and I am the owner of THE SIGNING CONNECTION. I teach Infant/Child and Family American Sign Language classes in the Austin/Round Rock/San Marcos areas. In our classes, we learn our basic ASL signs to aid in verbal and pre-verbal communication. By teaching the little ones sign language, it has been proven to decrease the fussiness and tantrums. Learning ASL has been shown to increase IQ, create stronger bonds between parent and child, and promote a measurable increase in vocabulary before the verbal skills have emerged. In our classes we use songs, stories and finger plays to help emphasize the weekly words in our theme-based class. Parents are then confident that they can become the language model for the children and reinforce the signs in the home environment.
Amy McKnight
757-846-4287
info@thesigningconnection.com
Facebook: @thesigningconnection
Twitter: @signingconnecti
Toybrary Austin
Toybrary Austin was created to provide a positive, clean, welcoming environment in which children, parents, and teachers can interact and learn. Toybrary Austin is a toy lending library which stocks beautiful, high-quality, educational toys for children ages 6 months through 5 years old. Our space is divided into a play area for kids, shelves of toys for checkout, and an enclosed room for birthday parties, parenting classes, children’s classes, and other events.
7817 Rockwood Street, Ste. 101
Austin, TX 78757
512-765-4174
info@toybraryaustin.com
Facebook: @toybraryaustin
Twitter: @toybraryaustin
Instagram: @toybraryaustin