The Zero to Three mission is to ensure that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. At ZERO TO THREE, we envision a society that has the knowledge and will to support all infants and toddlers in reaching their full potential.
During the first three years of life, emotionally nourishing relationships lay the foundation for lifelong health and well-being. By supporting the caring adults who touch the lives of infants and toddlers, we hope to maximize our long-term impact in ensuring all infants and toddlers have a bright future.
The ECTA Center supports state Part C and Section 619 programs in developing high-quality early intervention and preschool special education service systems, increasing local implementation of evidence-based practices, and enhancing outcomes for young children with disabilities and their families.
The Centers for Disease Control have provided a free milestones tracker app along with many materials and resources to track child development.
Provides free tools to maximize all children's motor, sensory, and communication development. Their mission is to empower parents to understand and encourage their baby’s development to keep them on track or catch potential delays early. Their goal is to ensure every child is screened for motor, sensory, and communication development by 4 months of age, taking advantage of baby’s neuroplasticity.
Laura Mize's Teach Me to Talk is a website for early interventionists who work with children, ages birth to three, with communication delays and disorders. Laura is a speech language pathologist who provides training, videos, and podcasts with info for the professionals and parents.
STAR Institute's mission is to impact quality of life by developing and promoting best practices for sensory health and wellness through treatment, education, and research. Their core values include
A transdisciplinary program for assessing and treating children with feeding difficulties. Dr. Kay Toomey is a Pediatric Psychologist who has worked with children who don’t eat for almost 35 years. She has developed the SOS Approach to Feeding as a family centered program for assessing and treating children with feeding problems. Dr. Toomey speaks nationally and internationally about her approach. Dr. Toomey helped to form The Children’s Hospital – Denver’s Pediatric Oral Feeding Clinic, as well as the Rose Medical Center’s Pediatric Feeding Center.
AEIOU stands for Acceptance, Exposure, Independence, Observation, Undestanding. Nina Ayd Johanson, MA, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, developed the AEIOU feeding approach and is the owner of Food Smart Kids, LLC, is a highly regarded clinician and renowned instructor with more than 27 years of experience. Nina provides education and support to parents of newborns and young children through her online learning platform to help children and their families learn to love food, enjoy family mealtimes, and thrive. She developed the "Baby-Cued Method™", a responsive feeding approach, to answer the many questions parents have about feeding their babies and transitioning to solid foods.
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities is a Parent Training and Information Center that serves the area of San Francisco, California. It offers information, education, and parent-to-parent support free of charge to families of children with any kind of disability or special healthcare need, and to the professionals that work with them.
Families Helping Families of Southeast Louisiana (FHF NOLA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit resource center for individuals with disabilities and their families. At FHF NOLA, all of our employees are parents or siblings of someone with a disability or are an individual with a disability themselves. We believe that because of our compassionate and empathetic staff, we provide the best possible support, resources and programming for people with disabilities and their families.
Working throughout all of Louisiana, LATAN assists residents of all ages with disabilities or functional limitations in gaining independence at home, at work, and at school through the use of assistive technology.
Assistive Technology (AT) is best described as any device, tool, software, or application used to increase, maintain, or improve the quality of life of a person living with a disability or functional limitation.
Becoming acquainted with common and hidden hazards in your home and community can help you take important safety steps now to prevent a tragedy later. Talking points for child-proofing a home, yard and being aware of hazards in the environment.
Across the State of Louisiana
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