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Gaby Martinez first noticed that her 3-year-old son Julian was struggling with his speech when he would point to objects, instead of telling her what he wanted. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe would mumble his words,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t understand anything he would say.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The mother of four children was motivated to find her son support for his speech, so she started looking for preschools and early learning programs for help. She was frustrated when she couldn\u2019t find a program the family could afford, but an online search led her to the Washington Resource Information Center, a First Things First-funded family resource center in Phoenix. <\/span><\/p>\n

FTF funds family resources centers throughout Maricopa County to help support parents as their child\u2019s first teacher. At these one-stop centers for families of kids birth to age 5, families and caregivers can attend parenting classes on topics such as early literacy, the importance of play to children\u2019s learning and how to deal with challenging behaviors. <\/span>All at no cost.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Martinez began by taking Julian and his younger sister <\/span>Mykaela<\/span>, 2, to story time at the center, which is part of the Washington Elementary School District. Twice a week for a year, Martinez and her young children participated in story time activities that involved sign language, numbers, letter recognition, pronunciations, eye-hand coordination, small motor skills and more. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJulian loved the pop-up books during story time and the interactive storytelling,\u201d Martinez said. But his favorite activity was at the end of story, which always included a hands-on activity relating to the story he would hear, such as making masks, using play-dough and creating caterpillars with pom-poms and pipe cleaners, Martinez said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Soon, Martinez and others noticed the improvement in speech in her children. \u201cI was able to see improvement with his speech after a couple of weeks when he was able to express his emotions and there was progress in his social skills,\u201d she said. \u201cFamily and friends start noticing his improvements and would tell me they could understand him better.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

After spending a year attending story time at the center, Martinez said she is confident that Julian will be ready for kindergarten. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJulian is now 4 years old and speaks clearly in English and Spanish, and I can understand him now,\u201d Martinez said.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending a year attending story time at the center, Gabby Martinez said she is confident that Julian will be ready for kindergarten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25874,"template":"","tags":[86,157,308,310,311],"class_list":["post-26362","family-stories","type-family-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-family-support","tag-phoenix-north","tag-family-resource-centers","tag-language-literacy-and-culture","tag-literacy","regions-phoenix-north"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPhoenix family resource center provides support to young boy - First Things First<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After spending a year attending story time at the center, Gabby Martinez said she is confident that Julian will be ready for kindergarten.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/phoenix-family-resource-center-provides-support-to-young-boy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phoenix family resource center provides support to young boy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After spending a year attending story time at the center, Gabby Martinez said she is confident that Julian will be ready for kindergarten.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/phoenix-family-resource-center-provides-support-to-young-boy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"First Things First\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AZFirstThingsFirst\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-11T23:57:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FTF_112920_TW.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"670\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AZFTF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutos\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/phoenix-family-resource-center-provides-support-to-young-boy\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/phoenix-family-resource-center-provides-support-to-young-boy\/\",\"name\":\"Phoenix family resource center provides support to young boy - 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