Resources for a Child Entering School - 3½ to 6 Years

By now the world is really opening up for your child. They are likely excited, yet anxious about starting school.

Full-Day Kindergarten can help improve your child's reading, writing and math skills and provide a strong foundation for future learning.

Member agencies of the Best Start Network offer the following programs and services in our area:

Cornwall Public Library

Family Storytime: storytime for the whole family promoting books and family participation.

Eastern Ontario Health Unit

Baby Talks!: series of free information sessions held at the Watch Me Grow drop-in locations for parents of children under the age of six.
Healthy Babies, Healthy Children: program for pregnant women and families with children up to the age of six.

Watch Me Grow: informal drop-in program for parents of children under the age of six.

Words in Bloom: speech and language development program for children up to the age of five.

Nippissing District Developmental Screen

Free developmental screening tools for infants and children up to 6 years of age.

Eastern Ontario Health Unit

City of Cornwall, Child Care Department

Licensed Child Care: list of licensed child care centres throughout the City of Cornwall and the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.

Licensed Home Child Care: early learning and care in a home-based family setting.
Child Care Fee Subsidy: helps eligible families pay for child care costs at licensed programs in the community.

Eastern Ontario Health Unit

Nobody's Perfect: 6-week course for parents of children 0 to 6 to learn about their child’s development, mind and behaviour.

Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre, Early Childhood Program

Infant Development: prevention and early intervention service for children 0 to 5 who have a physical and/or developmental disability, or are at risk of a developmental delay.
Getting Started Services: discipline-specific strategies for children from birth until they enter school who do not yet have a formal diagnosis while they are waiting for a developmental assessment.

Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre

Eastern Ontario Infant Hearing Program: identification, support and communication development services for infants who are deaf or at risk of developing hearing loss in early childhood.

S.D. & G. Developmental Services Centre

Infant Development Program: serves children from 0 to 5 years of age who have a developmental delay or are at risk of developmental delay.
Child and Adolescent Services Program: supports services for children 0 to 18 who are developmentally challenged and for their families/caregivers or children 0 to 5 who are at risk of developmental delay.
Occupational Therapy Services: for children 0 to 5 who are developmentally challenged or at risk of a developmental delay.