At age three, children enter our full-time Preschool Program. For half of the day, the children are engaged in highly focused activities designed to accelerate their learning of spoken language - including listening skills, speech, vocabulary, and development of connected language. For these activities, the children are taught in groups of two or three. For the other half of the day, children are in a preschool classroom. They engage in activities typical of regular preschool and early elementary school.

At the Moog School - Columbia, we believe that deaf children learn to talk by talking. Our daily schedule, with small homogeneous groupings and a focus on spoken language development, ensures that our children have lots of opportunity to practice talking. And, the more they practice, the better they learn.