Best Start resources

Child care

Publications

• Child care in Ontario (new)
• Planning and Design Guidelines for Child Care Centres

Health

Directories

• Healthy Babies Healthy Children program locations -- Public Health Units

Other resources

• Checklist for child development -- Nipissing District Developmental Screen

Hearing

Directory

• Infant hearing program locations

Publications

• Can your baby hear?
• • English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese,Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese
• Services for children who are deaf or hard of hearing
• • English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Korean,Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese

Nutrition

Publication

• Student nutrition program - nutrition guidelines

Services for children who are blind or have low vision

Publication

• Blind – Low Vision Early Intervention Program

Speech and language

Directories

• Speech and language program locations

Publications

• Your baby's speech and language skills from birth to 30 months
• • English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese
• Your preschool child's speech and language development
• • English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese

Best Start reports

Publications

• Ontario's Investments in Early Childhood Development Early Learning and Child Care 2005-2006
• Investing in Quality : Report of the Expert Panel on Quality and Human Resources, March 2007
• Early Learning for Every Child Today : Report of the Expert Panel on an Early Learning Program, December 2006
• Getting it Right at 18 Months ... Making it Right for a Lifetime : Report of the Expert Panel on the Enhanced 18-Month Well Baby Visit, September 2005
• Ontario's Early Childhood Development and Early Learning and Child Care: Investments and Outcomes 2004 - 2005
• Ontario's Early Childhood Development and Early Learning and Child Care Investments 2003 - 2004
• Ontario's Early Childhood Development Investments and Outcomes 2002 - 2003
• Ontario's Baseline Report on Early Learning and Child Care 2004
• The Early Years Study 1999

Other resources

• Food and Product Recalls -- Health Canada