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Here are some milestones for infants and toddlers:

1. Cognitive- Focus on movements of someone’s face, use facial expressions and respond to their environment, recognize familiar faces, imitating basic actions and gestures, manipulate objects.

2. Physical- rolling over, crawling, pulling up, sitting up, walking, babbles,

3. Social-Emotional- self-regulation, empathy, laughing, is shy, clingy, or fearful of strangers,

4. Language- babbling, copying sounds “raspberries”, copying gestures like waving, pointing or clapping, at 8-9 months, saying ‘mama’ or ‘dada’.

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There are a few red flags. If you have any questions, please reach out to your child's doctor and talk to your child's teacher.

Doesn’t respond to loud noises

Grasp, or hold objects by 3 months

Does not turn head to locate sounds by 4 months

Doesn’t roll over (stomach to back or back to stomach) by 6 months

Doesn’t crawl by 8 months

Says no single words (“mama” or “dada”) or babbles

Cannot walk by 18 months

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Hello! My name is Ms. Elizabeth. I have been working for Bright Horizons for 7.5 years. I have been in the toddler room for about a year. Before that I was a Resource Teacher. Have my associates in ECE with minor of special education. I will be graduating in June 2024 with my bachelor’s degree in ECE in Leadership. I love teaching because learning is fun and I like to make it fun.

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1. Autism

2. Hearing impairment

3. Speech or language impairment

4. Traumatic brain injury

5. Specific learning disability

1. Dyslexia

6. Other health impairment

1. Asthma

2. ADHD

3. Diabetes

4. Epilepsy

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No family wants to believe that there is something “wrong” with their child. Learning that your child has a type of disability can and does turn the family’s lives upside down.

Positives- seeing the world from a different point of view, learning how to teach differently, being more open minded. Teaching siblings and family members something new about their loved one.

Negatives- tears families apart, especially for the siblings. Feeling left out. A lot of stress.

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I plan to promote family engagement by communicating with the families, inviting them to the center. I will do this by talking to them, using our My Bright Day app on our iPads, inviting them to come read a story or two to their child’s classroom. I would also invite them to any of the fun center parties. Such as Chinese New Year, Friends-giving and many more. Creating an environment where everyone will feel welcome.

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Play with them! Get on the floor and play.

Read together, reading before bed or any time during the day is a fun way to bond, work on their child’s language skills and calming before bed.

Have conversations. Ask them how their day was and what they liked at school.

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It is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. It is a law that makes available a few appropriate public educations to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2024). You have the right to fight for your child’s education and making sure they get what they deserve and need to do so.

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (2024, February 16). About IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. https://sites.ed.gov/idea/about-idea/

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Risk factors for exceptional needs children

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Risk factors for exceptional needs children

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Environmental- air pollution, bad water, sanitation, and hygiene; hazardous chemicals and waste, radiation

Biological- low birthweight, premature birth, multiple birth, and infections during pregnancy.

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Loudoun County Children & Youth Service

1. https://www.loudoun.gov/4131/Children-Youth-Services

Loudoun County Disability Services

1. https://www.loudoun.gov/4398/Disability-Services

Both of these pages are for families that live in Loudoun County Virginia. There are links for other counties in the pages as well. These help you start your child's way to getting the help they need. If that is getting them an IEP or FSFP or housing or childcare. It is all there.

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Special Olympics

https://www.specialolympics.org/

Special Olympics is known for helping families of children with special needs. What they also offer is a big family or support system, whatever the family needs. These are all families that are going through the same or similar thing as you. They offer help to families that are new about their child's diagnosis and get them involved with other children like them. They learn how to play sports, be independent and more.