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  • On the Go
    Key Words: teaching, learning, reading
    Description: The On the Go materials include 14 activities designed to be used outside the home - in the car, while walking, during bus rides, etc. The activities encourage early language and literacy development from birth through preschool. They are appropriate for children with disabilities as well as children who are developing typically. The materials are designed to encourage parents to interact with their children while they are On the Go to facilitate language, early literacy, and positive parent-child interactions. The 14 activities are accompanied by hints for each of the activities about how to modify them to meet the specific developmental needs of the child.
    * Includes Spanish versions of activities. HTML
  • Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments
    Key Words: language, literacy, development, activities, reading
    Description: These materials include 46 home and community activities for adults and children that encourage early language and literacy development. They are appropriate for children with disabilities as well as children who are developing typically. Each of the 46 activities includes three pages: 1) An activity description; 2) Hints for making the activity fun and developmentally appropriate; and 3) A brief self-evaluation form that cues parents and other caregivers to notice their children's skills, and also cue adults to examine and grow their own interactions with children. The materials are specifically designed to address the three key skills of 1) language development, 2) phonological awareness, and 3) general print awareness. Dr. Notari-Syverson and colleagues allow the materials to be reproduced and distributed as long as the materials are not sold.
    *Activities available in English and Spanish. HTML
  • Early Literacy Activities
    Key Words: learning to read, development
    Description: These materials include 20 home and community activities for adults and children birth to three that encourage early language and literacy development. They are appropriate for children with disabilities as well as children who are developing typically. Each of the 20 activities include an activity description and hints for making the activity fun and developmentally appropriate. In addition to the activities, you can download an activity checklist that helps parents and caregivers notice their children's skills, and also cue adults to examine and grow their own interactions with children. The materials are specifically designed to address the three key skills of 1) language development, 2) sounds and rhythms, and 3) general book and print awareness.
    *Activities available in English and Spanish HTML
  • Ohio's Help Me Grow
    Key Words: parenting, pregnancy, health, baby, development
    Description: This website provides information for parents and caregivers from pregnancy through age 3. Topics include nutrition, children with special needs, an infant hearing program and resources by county. Ohio Help Me Grow is a program run by the Ohio Department of Health with offices in each county. HTML
  • Links Related to Children's Development
    Key Words: assistive technology mental health, autism, feeding, nutrition, child development, disability, deaf, hard of hearing, preemies, family advocacy, support, rare diseases, disorders, conditions, general disabilites, special education, health care, maternal, speech, language
    Description: This page breaks down helpful links by topic area. HTML
  • Zero to Three
    Key Words: brain development, child care, child development, language, literacy, health, nutrition, play, sleep, school readiness, social emotional development, temperament, behavior
    Description: Here you'll find science-based information and tools designed to help parents and caregivers nurture their young children's development. HTML
  • Parents as Teachers
    Key Words: listening, physical health, books, literacy, war trauma, writing, neurotoxins, sleeping, communication, child care providers, separation, anxiety
    Description: This website has parenting tips about your child's development. HTML
  • "Top Ten" Tips for Choosing Childcare in Ohio
    Key Words: child care, top ten, daycare, day care
    Description: The Ohio Family Care Workgroup's "Top Ten" tips for parents choosing child care in Ohio. PDF - 104 KB
  • Tufts University Child and Family Web Guide
    Key Words: parenting: on being a mom, dad, education, learning, health, mental health, development, recreation, public policy
    Description: Resources vetted by Tufts University Experts about parenting and child development. HTML
  • Adoption Events Around Ohio
    Events, Training, Meetings: Foster, adoptive & kinship parents and caregivers; Foster adoption support team; Families for Waiting Children; Adopt special-needs children from public foster care. HTML
  • Child Care in Ohio
    Online database of available childcare facilities in Ohio. Includes map-based search. HTML
  • ODMH Kids News: Building Ohio's Future
    Monthly newsletter providing news and resources related to children's mental health issues. HTML
  • Car Safety Seats: A Guide for Families
    Car Safety Seats: A Guide for Families provides caregivers with information on how to use car safety seats and seat belts correctly. HTML
  • Parent Central
    Parent Central provides resources and information about issues affecting children and families. Members can sign up to receive emails or visit the site to learn about opportunities to voice comments and concerns to decision makers. HTML
  • Operation Child Care - National Guard and Reserve Members
    Operation Child Care provides a minimum of four hours of free volunteer child care services to National Guard and Reserve Members returning home from Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom for two weeks of R&R leave. HTML
  • Terrific Transitions
    This Web site provides information and resources for families, professionals, and community partnerships to use as they address children's transitions into kindergarten. HTML
  • Healthy Kids, Healthy Care
    This Web site is for parents of children who attend child care programs. Topics: caregiver, cleanliness, emotional, habits, safety, illness, chronic conditions, special needs HTML
  • Learning and Growing Together
    Online scenarios and resources for families such as child development information; ways to enhance early learning for reading, writing and mathematics; and guides for parents about school. HTML
  • Connect Me Ohio
    This Web site is for Ohio consumers, caregivers and providers who are looking for up-to-date information about programs and services for people with disabilities, regardless of age or location. HTML
  • Child Care Ohio - Information and online search for child care in Ohio
    Resources and information to help parents in their search for child care and early education options in Ohio. Includes Links to Ohio's Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) agency online child care provider databases, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, early care and education databases in Ohio. HTML
  • AMBER Alert Plan
    The AMBER Alert Plan is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. HTML
  • Parent Academy (Reading, Conditions for Learning, and Academic Content Standards)
    The Ohio Department of Education is offering a free two hour workshop for parents about the best learning conditions for children. Workshops about reading and academic content standards are currently being revised. HTML
  • Superintendent's Parent Advisory Council
    In fall 2002, the Ohio Department of Education formed a Parent Advisory Council to provide a much needed connection between Ohio parents, their children and the Department. HTML
  • High Risk People Who Should Get the Flu Vaccine
    Who Should Get The Flu Vaccine? - All Children Aged 6-23 months HTML
  • Affording Child Care
    Parents who are working or in school can apply for help to pay for their child care in the county where they live by contacting the county department of Job and Family Services (CDJFS). HTML
  • Child Care Center Directory
    The Child Care Center Directory is categorized by county and maintained in PDF format (requires the Acrobat Reader to view). Click on the desired county for a listing of child care centers in that area. HTML
  • Families Home Page - Ohio Department of Education
    This Web site includes programs and opportunities to help parents get involved in their child's education, information on Ohio's education system, resources for helping children succeed in school, and links to other Web sites that have additional resources. HTML
  • Reach out and Read
    Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a program that promotes early literacy by bringing new books and advice about the importance of reading aloud into the pediatric exam room. HTML
  • Family TLC
    This Web site includes family activities - games, sports, crafts, music, cooking, nature and more - sorted by the age of your child. Find parenting tips, articles on child development and hundreds of new age-appropriate child activities each month. HTML
  • Human Development and Family Science Extension
    Parenting, Family Life, Young Children are just a few of the areas on this Web site developed by the Human Development and Family Science Extension of the College of Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. HTML
  • Children with Special Needs resources
    * Behavioral Delays * Cognitive Delays * Mental Illness * Other Health Impairments * Physical Delays * Social-Emotional Delays * Speech and Language Delays * Vision and Hearing Delays * Laws and Public Policy * Record Keeping * Research and Statistics HTML
  • Children, Youth and Families Education and Research network
    CYFERnet's Web site brings together the best, children, youth and family resources of all the public land-grant universities in the country. Materials are carefully reviewed by college and university faculty. HTML
  • Early Childhood Quality Network Web Site
    An Early Childhood resource web site Keywords: childhood, literacy, health, infants, toddlers HTML