Family Resource List.

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 Family Service Center

 www.familyservices.org
 713-861-4849
 1300 Bay Area Blvd. Ste. 230A, Houston, TX
 77058
 Services include individual and family
 counseling, substance abuse prevention and
 education, parent resource services, schoolbased services, family and senior support
 services, and HIV case management

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TRANSLATORS USA, LLC

Headquarters

1902 E. Common Street

New Braunfels

TX 78130

+1 888-790-8872,

Fax: +1 800-361-1359

sales@translators-usa.com

Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM (CST) (Online 24 Hr.)

Saturday: Online Only

Sunday: Online Only

Nightingale Interpreting Services

Offices: 6220 Westpark #238

Houston, Texas 77057

Mail: 3130 Grants Lake Blvd. #18631

Sugar Land, TX 77496

Phone: 713.893.8844

Fax: 713.589.2510
Email: scheduling@nisinterp.com

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Health and Human Services

Commission (HHSC) Disability

Services

www.dars.state.tx.us
713-948-7965
800-687-7036 (Toll Free)
Southeast Houston 10060 Fuqua MC: 6949
Houston, TX 77089-1337
Our experienced staff and paid contractors
can help eligible Texans with disabilities
access services so they can:
• Live independently in their own homes or
communities.
• Prepare for and find jobs.
• Provide medical equipment and assistive
devices.
• Determine eligibility for Supplemental
Security Income.
• Provide health care services to people who
have disabilities who work.
• Give family caregivers the tools to do their
job.
• Acquired Brain Injury * Autism *Blind
and Visually Impaired-The Blind Children’s
Vocational Discovery and Development
Program, The Blindness Education,
Screening and Treatment Program and The
Deaf Blind and Multiple Disabilities (DBMD)
*Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services
* Consumer Directed Services * Deaf
and Hard of Hearing * Early Childhood
Intervention Services *Employment.
• How to Pay for Services * Independent
Living * Intellectual or Developmental
Disabilities (IDD).
• Medical or Physical Disabilities * Personcentered Planning * Financial * Health
* Mental Health & Substance Use *
Questions About Your Benefits * Safety *
Service Coordination

The Sailing Angels Foundation

www.sailingangels.org
281- 507-1867
Sailing Angels introduces the joy of sailing to
children with special cognitive and physical
needs (e.g. Autism, Down Syndrome,
Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Blindness,
Deafness, MR, physical mobility issues,
etc.), as an opportunity for education and
recreational therapy. We provide sailing
adventures at no cost to the participants.

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Helpful Websites
Help Me Grow
Providing resources for families to understand developmental milestones and learn if there are
concerns.
https://helpmegrowmn.org/HMG/index.html
Article
What is Communication and Language Development
Children grow and develop rapidly in their first five years across the four main areas of development.
These areas are motor (physical), communication and language, cognitive, and social and emotional.
Communication and language development is about more than talking. It means all the different ways a
child understands and communicates, only part of which are spoken words.
Communication and language development is important, because speaking is an indicator of fine motor
skill development and a reflection of cognitive development.
Reading is one of the best ways to encourage communication and language development. As an infant,
hearing words and seeing pictures helps a child understand the two are connected. This lays a
foundation for speech, which begins around nine months and typically increases as a child grows.
Parents and caregivers play a big role in a child’s communication and language development. Here are
some suggestions for how to encourage this development:
Answer when your baby makes sounds. This will help him/her learn to use language.
Read to your baby. This will help him/her develop and understand language and sounds.
Help to develop your toddler’s language by talking with him/her and adding words. For example, if your
toddler says "baba,” you can respond, "Yes, you are right – that is a bottle."
Encourage your child to tell you his/her name and age.
Teach your child simple songs like “Itsy Bitsy Spider,” or other cultural childhood rhymes.
Help your child develop good language skills by speaking to in complete sentences and using "grown-up"
words. Help your child to use the correct words and phrases.
For more information on how to encourage and support a child’s development, visit the
Communication and Language page.

Zero to Three
Information to support the health and development of infants and toddlers.
https://www.zerotothree.org/early-development

https://www.thinksmall.org/for_parents_and_guardians/understanding_your_childs_development/
Understanding Your Child’s Development
Children are amazing . . . growing and changing every day.
As parents, we experience many joys (and sometimes frustrations!) with our child’s rapidly changing
behaviors, skills, and feelings. One way to better understand your child is to know more about child
development. With advances in brain science, we are learning more about how a child develops and the
importance of good early experiences.
Article
Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child's Development
Each of these age-based handouts are based on findings from a report from the National Academy of
Sciences on child and brain development.
What do we really know about how a young child develops? What can parents do to best support their
child’s healthy development and growing brain? Some of the answers are in this series of Healthy Minds
handouts, based on key findings from the report, From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early
Development.
The information we offer is age-specific, summarizes key findings from the report and suggests how you
might be able to use these key findings to nurture your own child’s healthy development.