Resources

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Perinatal Support Washington Warm line for parents
1-888-404-7763; The Warm Line offers peer & professional support for all parents and their family members. The trained staff and parent volunteers are knowledgeable and friendly. The Warm Line is answered live 9-4:30 Monday-Friday. On evenings and weekends, please leave a message and their staff will return your call within 1-12 hours.

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Educational Resources

Kaleidoscope School
Kaleidoscope School is a small caring preschool program located in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle for children ages two through six. 

Seattle Children's Playgarden Preschool
Seattle Children's Playgarden is a nonprofit organization operating a preschool program for children with special needs and typically developing children (ages two and a half to five) at the Colman Playfield in Seattle. The Playgarden's program is organized so that special needs children are grouped with typically developing children. Open enrollment. Services are fee-based.

Services for Special Needs

Boyer Children's Clinic
Boyer Children's Clinic is a nonprofit organization in Seattle serving children (birth to teen years) who have neuromuscular disorders such as cerebral palsy or delay in development. No professional referral required. Fees are charged based upon ability to pay after consideration of other resources. No child is denied services because of a parent's inability to pay.

ChildStrive
ChildStrive (formerly Little Red School House) has helped thousands of families imagine a different future for their children, by providing critically important family-centered programs. Early Intervention services are available to families with children who have developmental delay or disability. ChildStrive special educators, speech, occupational, or physical therapists and counselors provide therapies to children age birth to three in their homes or daycare. ChildStrive provides developmental assessments free of charge.

Kindering Center
Kindering is a nonprofit organization serving children (birth to 10 years) who are disabled, medically fragile or vulnerable because of abuse or neglect. At its locations in Bellevue, Bothell, Redmond and Renton, Kindering provides physical and occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, special education and family counseling among other services. Services are fee based. No professional referral required.

Northwest Center
Northwest Center is a leader in advancing equal opportunities for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Services for children provide early support for infants and toddlers, inclusive early childhood education, and after school programs. Northwest Center Kids Early Supports is a family-centered program for children 0-3 with developmental delays. They provide speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, dietitian, mental health services, special education and family resource coordination services wherever the child learns, plays and sleeps—including their home, their childcare center, Northwest Center’s inclusive Early Learning programs (at Greenwood and downtown Seattle location) or other community settings.

Seattle Children's Playgarden
Seattle Children's Playgarden is a nonprofit organization operating a preschool program for children with special needs (ages two and a half to five) at the Colman Playfield in Seattle. The Playgarden's program is organized so that special needs children are grouped with typically developing children. Open enrollment. Services are fee-based.

Seattle Public Schools' Office of Early Learning

The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
ICDL is a nonprofit research and training institute. Their website offers a search function for DIR©-certified professionals.

The Seattle Public Library Sensory Story Times
Seattle Public Libraries run regular special story times for for children ages 10 and under who have a hard time in large groups, are on the autism spectrum or are sensitive to sensory overload. Our librarians will use preschool-level books, songs and movement during story times.

University of Washington Experimental Education Unit
The Experimental Education Unit (EEU) is a state certified special education school that serves children from birth to age seven with diverse abilities. In addition, faculty at the EEU conduct research projects and provide training opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and other professionals.

Parenting Resources

Birth Injury Center
Our mission is to assist anyone who has been affected by a birth injury. Our website is a compilation of information around different types of injuries. We offer resources to assist the injured and their families.

Casey Family Programs
A national operating foundation located in Seattle, Casey Family Programs provides services to children in foster care (birth to age 18) and their families out of nine field offices located in Washington, Idaho, California, Arizona and Texas.

Community of Mindful Parents
The Community of Mindful Parents offers resources and discussions groups online for parents and also conducts two parenting groups, Listening Mothers and Reflective Parenting. Listening Mothers is an eight-week program for parents and their babies, age birth to six months. Reflective Parenting is an eight-week workshop for parents of children ages 1 1/2 to 5. Parents can register for groups through the Community of Mindful Parents website.

DAWN
Dawn supports, empowers, and shelters survivors of domestic abuse in South King County and helps to keep us all safe by educating our community to respond to and prevent violence.

KAH Parent Coaching
Series of coaching conversations; Kathryn brings her experience as a research scientist and the mom of three now adult sons to her parent coaching sessions. Kathryn loves all ages and stages of parenting: expecting, newborns, toddlers, school age, teens, college-ready, launched, returned and full adult children.

Parent Trust 
1.800.932.HOPE (4673)

Profectum Parent Toolbox
The Toolbox, created with a generous grant from the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation, is a user-friendly, online training program comprised of short webcasts, video examples of strategies to promote development, and your own customized companion workbook. It is built on the Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship model (DIR model) developed by Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, which is central to the work at Cooper House.

Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS)
PEPS offers weekly parent-child support groups throughout King and Snohomish Counties to parents of children under age three. Sessions are facilitated by both volunteers and professionals. Open enrollment. Some partial and full income-based scholarships are available.

Sensory Profile Toolkit 
This resource helps parents understand how their sensory profile and their child's might intersect.

Talking about Terminal Illness
This article talks about how a parent with a terminal illness can talk to their child.

The Center for Chronic Illness

The Center for Chronic Illness offers support groups for anyone impacted by chronic illness and rare disease. All programs are free of cost and held virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. “*Please note, while our support groups are professionally-facilitated and may offer psycho-educational tools for coping, our groups are NOT psychotherapy or counseling groups and are not an exchange for individual psychotherapy.

Zero to Three
Zero to Three is a national, nonprofit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. Also provides online resources for professionals.

Professional Resources

Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families
Guiding principles created to encourage the infant mental health field to intentionally and mindfully engage in standards of practice that promote and strive for a just and equitable society.

Harvard Center on the Developing Child
A research and development platform with research briefs, resources, and professional development opportunities.

The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
ICDL is a nonprofit research and training institute that promotes the DIR©/Floortime™ Model for the assessment and therapeutic treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other developmental challenges.

NEAR@home Toolkit
A resource for home visitors to respectfully and effectively address ACES with families.

Parenting Counts
Talaris Institute has developed a line of products that are intended to assist parents and caregivers in raising socially and emotionally healthy children.

Profectum
Profectum Foundation offers training and research to support practitioners working with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other developmental challenges. Webcasts, certificate programs, conferences and workshops are available to support education and training in the DIR©/Floortime™ Model.

Reflective Supervision: A Guide from Region X to Enhance Reflective Practice Among Home Visiting Programs
A set of guidelines that provide a framework and shared language for reflective supervision/consultation.

Washington Association for Infant Mental Health
This organization supports the professionals and systems that nurture healthy beginnings in life, because early relationships matter.

What to Expect
Month-by-month development calendar and other resources for pregnancy and beyond.

Within Reach
This agency has an online resource for families and providers who are unsure if a child might have a developmental delay in a particular area, using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ). After completing the questionnaire, a Child Development Specialist will contact the parent or caregiver to walk through the results, and provide information and referrals to community based programs (including early intervention) as needed.