117 West Fayette Street, Celina OH 45822
Phone: 419-586-1721 Fax: 419-586-5210
For referrals contact Central Coordination: Kelly ext. 1000 or Sandy ext. 1010
Email: mchmg@bright.net
Are you having your first baby or adopting your first child,
noticing a possible developmental delay or medical diagnosis in your child,
or come from a military family?
Help me grow is here to guide you! Our friendly staff of home
visitors and service coordinators are able to assist you by providing the
information you need. In providing resources on different
developmental stages your child should be reaching, our staff is able to aid
parents in evaluating their children's growth
and development.
Please contact the office for questions pertaining to eligibility.
What is Help Me Grow?
Help Me Grow
(HMG) offers two voluntary programs to prenatal women, children, and families:
• HMG Early
intervention provides family-centered services for infants and toddlers to age
3 with a developmental delay, disability, or a medical condition likely to
result in a delay or disability.
• HMG Home
Visiting provides first time expectant or new parents the information and
support they need to be prepared for the birth of their child and provides
ongoing education and support for families to maximize their child’s health and
development to age 3.
• Both
programs are available in all 88 Ohio counties.
When you
contact Ohio Help Me Grow in your community, someone will help you find the
best program for you and your family.
• Anyone can
refer a child or family to Help Me Grow!
Help Me Grow Home Visiting
Home Visitor: Leslie ext. 1008
Home Visitor: Leslie ext. 1008
Home Visiting matches parents with a trained
Home Visitor who comes to wherever the family lives. Their Home Visitor is a
friendly, trained, and experienced person who can answer questions about
pregnancy or being a parent and can help find services that help families care
for themselves and their children.
• The HMG Home Visiting Program works with
and supports families and helps them set and reach their goals.
• In home services include: parenting
education, ongoing screenings, coordination and referrals for community
resources, transition at age 3.
Help Me Grow Early
Intervention
Service Coordinator:
Janeen ext. 1009
Do you have a concern about your child’s
development?
• HMG Early Intervention service needs are
determined by a multidisciplinary team who evaluates and/or assesses the
child’s developmental needs.
• The team is led by a Service Coordinator
who will work to assist and enable a child with a delay or disability and the
child’s family to receive services and rights as afforded under the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act.
• Children and their families will transition
when they complete needed services or when the child turns age three, with
supports to move on to the next phase of growth & development.
Or call the Ohio Help Me
Grow Helpline: 1-800-755-GROW (4769)
Mercer County Help Me
Grow is funded by:
The Ohio Department
of Health Bureau for Children with Developmental and Special Health Needs
Developmental Stages: Information
provided by
http://www.helpmegrow.ohio.gov/Parents-Caregivers/Parents%20and%20Caregivers.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/parents/infants/healthy_children.html
http://www.helpmegrow.ohio.gov/Parents-Caregivers/Parents%20and%20Caregivers.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/parents/infants/healthy_children.html
Important Milestones:
Your Baby at Two Months
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by the end of 2
months. Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit
about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most babies do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
Begins to smile at people
·
Can briefly calm himself (may bring hands to mouth and suck on
hand)
·
Tries to look at parent
Language/Communication
·
Coos, makes gurgling sounds
·
Turns head toward sounds
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Pays attention to faces
·
Begins to follow things with eyes and recognize people at a
distance
·
Begins to act bored (cries, fussy) if activity doesn’t change
Movement/Physical Development
·
Can hold head up and begins to push up when lying on tummy
·
Makes smoother movements with arms and legs
Important Milestones: Your Baby at Four Months
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by the end of 4
months. Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit
about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most babies do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
Smiles spontaneously, especially at people
·
Likes to play with people and might cry when playing stops
·
Copies some movements and facial expressions, like smiling or
frowning
Language/Communication
·
Begins to babble
·
Babbles with expression and copies sounds he hears
·
Cries in different ways to show hunger, pain, or being tired
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Lets you know if she is happy or sad
·
Responds to affection
·
Reaches for toy with one hand
·
Uses hands and eyes together, such as seeing a toy and reaching
for it
·
Follows moving things with eyes from side to side
·
Watches faces closely
·
Recognizes familiar people and things at a distance
Movement/Physical Development
·
Holds head steady, unsupported
·
Pushes down on legs when feet are on a hard surface
·
May be able to roll over from tummy to back
·
Can hold a toy and shake it and swing at dangling toys
·
Brings hands to mouth
·
When lying on stomach, pushes up to elbows
Important Milestones: Your Baby at Six Months
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by the end of 6
months. Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit
about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most babies do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
Knows familiar faces and begins to know if someone is a stranger
·
Likes to play with others, especially parents
·
Responds to other people’s emotions and often seems happy
·
Likes to look at self in a mirror
Language/Communication
·
Responds to sounds by making sounds
·
Strings vowels together when babbling (“ah,” “eh,” “oh”) and likes
taking turns with parent while making sounds
·
Responds to own name
·
Makes sounds to show joy and displeasure
·
Begins to say consonant sounds (jabbering with “m,” “b”)
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Looks around at things nearby
·
Brings things to mouth
·
Shows curiosity about things and tries to get things that are out
of reach
·
Begins to pass things from one hand to the other
Movement/Physical Development
·
Rolls over in both directions (front to back, back to front)
·
Begins to sit without support
·
When standing, supports weight on legs and might bounce
·
Rocks back and forth, sometimes crawling backward before moving
forward
Important Milestones: Your Baby at Nine Months
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by the end of 9
months. Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit
about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most babies do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
May be afraid of strangers
·
May be clingy with familiar adults
·
Has favorite toys
Language/Communication
·
Understands “no”
·
Makes a lot of different sounds like “mamamama” and “bababababa”
·
Copies sounds and gestures of others
·
Uses fingers to point at things
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Watches the path of something as it falls
·
Looks for things he sees you hide
·
Plays peek-a-boo
·
Puts things in her mouth
·
Moves things smoothly from one hand to the other
·
Picks up things like cereal o’s between thumb and index finger
Movement/Physical Development
·
Stands, holding on
·
Can get into sitting position
·
Sits without support
·
Pulls to stand
·
Crawls
Important Milestones: Your Child at One Year
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by his or her 1st
birthday. Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit
about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most children do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
Is shy or nervous with strangers
·
Cries when mom or dad leaves
·
Has favorite things and people
·
Shows fear in some situations
·
Hands you a book when he wants to hear a story
·
Repeats sounds or actions to get attention
·
Puts out arm or leg to help with dressing
·
Plays games such as “peek-a-boo” and “pat-a-cake”
Language/Communication
·
Responds to simple spoken requests
·
Uses simple gestures, like shaking head “no” or waving “bye-bye”
·
Makes sounds with changes in tone (sounds more like speech)
·
Says “mama” and “dada” and exclamations like “uh-oh!”
·
Tries to say words you say
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Explores things in different ways, like shaking, banging, throwing
·
Finds hidden things easily
·
Looks at the right picture or thing when it’s named
·
Copies gestures
·
Starts to use things correctly; for example, drinks from a cup,
brushes hair
·
Bangs two things together
·
Puts things in a container, takes things out of a container
·
Lets things go without help
·
Pokes with index (pointer) finger
·
Follows simple directions like “pick up the toy”
Movement/Physical Development
·
Gets to a sitting position without help
·
Pulls up to stand, walks holding on to furniture (“cruising”)
·
May take a few steps without holding on
·
May stand alone
Important Milestones: Your Child at Eighteen
Months
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by the end of 18
months. Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit
about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most babies do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
Likes to hand things to others as play
·
May have temper tantrums
·
May be afraid of strangers
·
Shows affection to familiar people
·
Plays simple pretend, such as feeding a doll
·
May cling to caregivers in new situations
·
Points to show others something interesting
·
Explores alone but with parent close by
Language/Communication
·
Says several single words
·
Says and shakes head “no”
·
Points to show someone what he wants
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Knows what ordinary things are for; for example, telephone, brush,
spoon
·
Points to get the attention of others
·
Shows interest in a doll or stuffed animal by pretending to feed
·
Points to one body part
·
Scribbles on his own
·
Can follow 1-step verbal commands without any gestures; for
example, sits when you say “sit down”
Movement/Physical Development
·
Walks alone
·
May walk up steps and run
·
Pulls toys while walking
·
Can help undress herself
·
Drinks from a cup
·
Eats with a spoon
Important Milestones: Your Child at Two Years
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by his or her 2nd
birthday. Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit
about the milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most babies do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
Copies others, especially adults and older children
·
Gets excited when with other children
·
Shows more and more independence
·
Shows defiant behavior (doing what he has been told not to)
·
Plays mainly beside other children, but is beginning to include
other children, such as in chase games
Language/Communication
·
Points to things or pictures when they are named
·
Knows names of familiar people and body parts
·
Says sentences with 2 to 4 words
·
Follows simple instructions
·
Repeats words overheard in conversation
·
Points to things in a book
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Finds things even when hidden under two or three covers
·
Begins to sort shapes and colors
·
Completes sentences and rhymes in familiar books
·
Plays simple make-believe games
·
Builds towers of 4 or more blocks
·
Might use one hand more than the other
·
Follows two-step instructions such as “Pick up your shoes and put
them in the closet.”
·
Names items in a picture book such as a cat, bird, or dog
Movement/Physical Development
·
Stands on tiptoe
·
Kicks a ball
·
Begins to run
·
Climbs onto and down from furniture without help
·
Walks up and down stairs holding on
·
Throws ball overhand
·
Makes or copies straight lines and circles
Important Milestones: Your Child at Three Years
How your child plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important
clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most
children can do by a certain age.
Check the milestones your child has reached by his or her 3rd birthday.
Take this with you and talk with your child’s doctor at every visit about the
milestones your child has reached and what to expect next.
What most babies do at this age:
Social and Emotional
·
Copies adults and friends
·
Shows affection for friends without prompting
·
Takes turns in games
·
Shows concern for crying friend
·
Understands the idea of “mine” and “his” or “hers”
·
Shows a wide range of emotions
·
Separates easily from mom and dad
·
May get upset with major changes in routine
·
Dresses and undresses self
Language/Communication
·
Follows instructions with 2 or 3 steps
·
Can name most familiar things
·
Understands words like “in,” “on,” and “under”
·
Says first name, age, and sex
·
Names a friend
·
Says words like “I,” “me,” “we,” and “you” and some plurals (cars,
dogs, cats)
·
Talks well enough for strangers to understand most of the time
·
Carries on a conversation using 2 to 3 sentences
Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving)
·
Can work toys with buttons, levers, and moving parts
·
Plays make-believe with dolls, animals, and people
·
Does puzzles with 3 or 4 pieces
·
Understands what “two” means
·
Copies a circle with pencil or crayon
·
Turns book pages one at a time
·
Builds towers of more than 6 blocks
·
Screws and unscrews jar lids or turns door handle
Movement/Physical Development
·
Climbs well
·
Runs easily
·
Pedals a tricycle (3-wheel bike)
·
Walks up and down stairs, one foot on each step
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