Supporting Educators. Empowering Children. Making Classrooms Inclusive.
Sequential Development Consulting partners with child care centers and preschools to help early childhood programs meet children’s developmental needs in three essential areas: social-emotional health, sensory and motor development, and speech and language development.
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Our work is informed by the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, a neuroscience-based approach that considers how young children build resilience, regulate their bodies and emotions, and develop through the sequential organization of the brain.
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We help preschool classrooms become more inclusive for all children: all learners, all bodies, and all brains. When the classroom environment is thoughtfully designed, and educators feel supported with the right tools, strategies, and mindset, true inclusion becomes possible.
SDC has been a fabulous PD resource. All three presentations have been really accessible and informative. Our teachers have walked away with new knowledge, fresh perspective and good ideas of how to enhance the learning environments and better support their students. Being able to easily tap into the expertise that SDC offers has helped our teachers feel more confident in their approach to child care and education.
-Director at The Carey School in San Mateo
WE ENSURE EXCELLENCE IN
THE 3 ESSENTIAL AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT
Social-Emotional Development
Our early childhood mental health clinicians support early learning centers in creating the most enriching interpersonal environment to support the development of positive self-esteem and identity, empathy, self-awareness, awareness of others, social skills, the ability to establish and maintain relationships with peers and adults, emotional awareness, and the ability to manage emotions.
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Learning happens when children feel safe. They are intrinsically motivated to explore, experiment, and dive in to new experiences, constantly absorbing new things. We need to make sure their learning environment meets their social-emotional needs so their natural curious selves can thrive.
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Sensory and Motor
Development
Our pediatric occupational therapist will team up with the early learning center staff to make sure the spaces where children spend their time have the appropriate structures, activities, and toys to support sensory and motor development.
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During the first five years, children explore their surroundings, refining their sensory processing abilities and gradually acquiring fine, visual, and gross motor skills. Through repetitive practice and interactions with sensory rich environments, they lay the foundation for complex physical and cognitive tasks, facilitating their overall development and learning.
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Speech and Language Development
Our pediatric speech and language pathologist partners with early childhood education professionals to discover ways to engage every child in positive, enriched interactions so that they can develop the speech, language, feeding, and social skills that will be critical to their future success.
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The most important period for acquiring speech and language skills occurs in the first three years of life, when the brain is developing and maturing at a rapid pace. These skills develop best in rich language environments with adults modeling and responding to a child’s communication in specific ways.
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Our work is grounded in neuroscience.
Specifically, the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, by Dr. Bruce Perry.
The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics is a neurodevelopmentally-informed, biologically respectful perspective on human development and functioning.
Our Team
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
We are a team of caring, compassionate, dedicated, and experienced professionals representing 3 essential areas of child development. We know just how important the first 5 years of life are for a child's developing body, brain, and social skills. Our goal is to support early learning centers to become the best versions of themselves and to support families looking to find quality care for their children so they can feel confident that all of their child's needs will be covered.
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Our Experts Are the Finest
Our team has been in the field of child development for 15+ years. Our goal is to help preschool environments support the whole child — from the physical, to the emotional, to the relational. The teachers who interact with children each day are some of the most important people in a child’s world during those hours of care. The environment itself is also a “teacher.” When thoughtfully designed, it can support regulation, connection, curiosity, independence, and inclusion.
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At SDC, we believe inclusive classrooms are built intentionally. Inclusion is not just about making space for children with different needs — it is about creating environments where all learners, all bodies, and all brains are understood, supported, and able to participate meaningfully. We want to help early learning spaces inspire little minds and bodies to grow strong.
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Our brains develop sequentially from the bottom up and from the inside out. The four domains of functioning, according to Dr. Bruce Perry, are Sensory Integration, Self-Regulation, Relational, and Cognitive. Our team uses this understanding of the sequential development of the brain and body to collaborate with early childhood educators and help preschools, child care centers, and early learning environments become as supportive, inclusive, and developmentally responsive as possible.
