Communication skills are central to a child’s emotional, social, behavioral, and cognitive development.  Building on an inventory of communication tools that is both age and stage appropriate is foundational to successful living.  Parents can play a vital role in this process.

Partners Megan Stock and Nicole Diduck both possess Masters degrees in Speech-Language Pathology. Beyond the academic, they share a passion for empowering young children. Perhaps even more significantly, they are both mothers.    

Their Natural Development Approach™ provides an enlightening alternative to a popular notion that many commercial products are age appropriate. Stock and Diduck’s 20 years of joint experience as MSLPs has shown them that the pressure to prepare children for academic success at earlier and earlier stages may omit focus on more critical elements. Some highly commercialized products may even prove detrimental to a youngster’s natural development.

Authors of the Early Booster Series of books—Beans! and Messy Me!—the pair believe in helping parents raise their little ones to become critical thinkers and effective communicators.