Monday, January 30, 2012

January 24th LAPC Meeting

Highlights from this meeting:

Two Professionals that were mentioned to use for Child Development portion of the workshop

Lenore Stam (former director of Long Island Infant Development)
email: lenore.stam@gmail.com
Phone: 516-536-7164
Fee: $115.00
Sheri Fox
Phone: 516-317-4222
Fee: $110.00

A great activity that was mentioned was to take 40 grit sand paper and cut up yarn and pieces of felt to place onto the sand paper. This acts as a felt board. This will also add to having the kids feel different textures.

A tip that a librarian shared was if you wanted to make the color of the playdough a deeper color try using Wilton Paste.

LeapFrog: Tag
 The Leapfrog Tag Readers were mentioned at this meeting. Some libraries have these and say they can't keep them on the shelf the kids are loving them so much. There was one library that purchased the newest item from leapfrog which is the Leap Frog Tag Junior. The junior ones are for board books now. You can visit this site to learn more about these great tools for kids to use. LeapFrog: Tag



LeapFrog: Tag Junior




Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Free Resource Professionals for Parent Child Workshop

New York Poison Control Center (in the City no office on Long Island anymore)
Contact: Eduardo Torres
Director of NY is Lauren Schwartz
Phone: 212-447-2599 - main number to Director
Eduardo's email: teduardo@health.nyc.gov <- best way to contact him

Dentist for Kids
Main number is 631- 289-9000
As of September this is the Contact Name: Stacey Varley
Phone: 631-868-0641

Long Island Speech and Hearing Association (LISHA)
Just call the Hotline at 516-626-8000 or 631-395-2770
Leave a message and someone will contact you back about someone coming to the program.

All wonderful programmers I highly suggest all of them and they were FREE

Any questions please feel free to contact me (Michelle Kenney) @ mkenney22@gmail.com