About
Kids Developmental Services (KDS) is a Private Early Childhood Services (ECS) Operator funded by Alberta Education. We work in the community with our preschool and child care partnerships and offer services to children accessing PUF and Mild/Moderate funding. All children in our program, irrespective of their funding code, are offered Home Programming and Kids PlayTime during enrollment. Kids PlayTime is a playgroup run in various community spaces around the city. Groups are between 90 and 120 minutes long, and outdoor play forms a large part of the group. We use community resources, such as Public Libraries and Community Centres, as our base from which to run these groups and some of them are completely outdoor based. Children work on their goals during outdoor play and team members are able to work more individually with children. These groups incorporate the FLIGHT Curriculum and are play-based and child-led. KDS also offers "Parenting with Positive Discipline" in-person and virtual workshops and support groups for our parents and parents of non-funded children of our partnerships. Our Speech-Language Therapy team also run in-person and virtual groups for parents on speech and language development. KDS is completely paperless and all our work and communication with parents and our partnerships is shared on our online portal.