In early childhood, speech and language development are crucial for communication, social interaction, and learning. Milestones occurring from infancy through preschool years, including babbling, first words, and sentence formation. By age 6, most children learn the basics for language. Speech therapy can help children improve these skills. Some areas include: verbal fluency, sound development, understanding words and vocabulary.

Occupational skills are a wide range of abilities needed for daily living. These tasks include fine motor skills, visual processing, grasp paterns, and sensory processing. Occupational therapy can help children improve these skills. Some areas that occupational therapy works to improve are: shoe tying, handwriting, manipulating toys, using zippers, fastening buttons, coloring, tracing and regulation abilities.

Social emotional development is how children start to understand who they are, what they are feeling and what to expect when interacting with others. It is the development of being able to: Form and sustain positive relationships, Experience, manage and express emotions, Explore and engage with the environment. For this area of development every child will have different skills based on experiences. Social workers and counselors help support difficultulties in this area.