Child Development & Family Functioning

Brain-Building Through Play: Activities for Infants, Toddlers, and Children
December 14, 2022

From The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.

This handout series, developed with support from the LEGO Foundation, provides suggestions games and play-based activities based on a child’s age. The activities for younger children are designed for adults to engage in with children. Activities for later ages allow the adults to step back, enabling children’s independence to blossom as they transition to playing more often with peers.

There are individual handouts for babies, toddlers, children, and teens.

  • Website, Brain-Building Through Play: Activities for Infants, Toddlers, and Children

    Ways to Play at each stage


Karli and Me Activity Book for Children Coping with Parental Addiction

From Sesame Workshop, this activity book can be used with young children to in build resilience when faced with the unique issues presented by a parent’s addiction.

  • Book, Karli and Me Activity Book for Children Coping with Parental Addiction

    Activity Book


What You Can Do to Protect Children from Environmental Risks
November 01, 2024

This collection of resources from the US Environmental Protection Agency offers specific strategies for protecting children from a variety of environmental risks including pesticides and other chemicals, too much sun or heat, and storms and floods.

  • Website, What You Can Do to Protect Children from Environmental Risks

    What You Can Do to Protect Children from Environmental Risks links


Disability Notification Cards

These cards can be used as a tool to help you or your loved one with a disability in the event they encounter a law enforcement officer, EMT, firefighter, or other emergency responder.

  • Document, Disability Notification Cards

    ID card template form ND Disability Rights

  • Document, Disability Notification Cards

    Fillable ID card template from The Arc of Northern Virginia

  • Document, Disability Notification Cards

    US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) notification card


Let’s Talk About Talking webinar
February 28, 2024

Originally delivered live on February 28, 2024 by pediatric Speech Language Pathologist Beth Stribling,  the Let’s Talk About Talking: How Families Can Nurture and Support Communication Skills webinar offered families guidance on developmental language development milestones. Specific strategies for supporting pragmatic language were shared.

  • PDF, Let’s Talk About Talking webinar

    Presentation slides

  • Video, Let’s Talk About Talking webinar

    Webinar recording

  • PDF, Let’s Talk About Talking webinar

    What is a Speech Language Pathologist? handout

  • PDF, Let’s Talk About Talking webinar

    Communication Milestones by age Handout

  • PDF, Let’s Talk About Talking webinar

    Expressive and Receptive Language Delays handout

  • PDF, Let’s Talk About Talking webinar

    What's Difference Between Speech and Language? Handout


It’s Just Not Fair: Supporting Siblings with Special Needs

Slides from a presentation by therapist Melanie Kantor, hosted by Formed Families Forward October 3, 2019.

  • PDF, It’s Just Not Fair: Supporting Siblings with Special Needs


Effects of Attachment and Sensory Integration
January 14, 2013

Effects of Attachment and Sensory Integration by Owen, Kennedy & Peterson.

 

  • PPT, Effects of Attachment and Sensory Integration