-- A --
Adjusting to a New Baby
Adoption
American Sign Language
Auditory Oral/Auditory Verbal
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-- B --
Babbling
Bottle Feeding
Brain Development
Breast Feeding
Burns, Prevention of
-- C --
Calming Your Baby
Car Seat Safety
Child and Teen Checkups (C & TC)
Child Care
Child Find (Concerns About Your Baby)
Choking/suffocation
Cochlear implants
Colic
Comforting Your Baby
Community Resources
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Crib Safety
Crying
Cued Speech
-- D --
Development of Your Baby
Discipline and Babies
Drowning
-- E --
Ear infections and early learning
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
Early Childhood Special Education
Early Head Start
Expectations for hearing aid usage
-- F --
Fall prevention
Family Stress
Fathering
Follow Along Program
Fussiness
-- G --
Grandparenting
Grief (see Pregnancy and Newborn Loss)
-- H --
Hearing (see Newborn Hearing Screening)
Hearing aids
Hearing loss and early brain development
Hearing loss: your child and school
-- I --
Imagination
Immunizations
Infant Self-Regulation
Interagency Early Intervention Committees (IEICs)
-- L --
Language Development
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning loss: parent support for learning language
-- M --
Maternal Depression
Mild hearing loss
Military Families
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
Multiple Intelligences
-- N --
Never leave a child alone in a vehicle
Newborn Hearing Screening
Newborn Screening
Newsletters
Noise and Children's Hearing
Nurturing Your Baby
Nutrition
-- O --
Oral Health
Overview of communication choices
-- P --
Parent and Child Relationships
Parenting Education Classes
Permanent hearing loss
Play
Poisoning, Preventing
Preemies and parenting issues
Preemies and their development
Preemies and their health
Pregnancy and Newborn Loss, Understanding Your Grief
Preterm Babies (Premies)
-- R --
Radon
Reading Aloud (Reading to Your Baby)
Reading Your Baby’s Clues
Responsive Parenting
Returning to Work/School
Routines/Schedules for Babies
-- S --
Second Hand Smoke
Selecting Toys
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Sleep
Social Emotional Development of the Older Infant
Social Emotional Development of the Young Infant
Stranger Awareness/Anxiety
Stress and Your Baby
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
-- T --
Talking to Your Baby
Teething
Television and Babies
Temperament
Toy Safety
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Tummy Time
-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Webinars for Parents (library)
Adjusting to a New Baby
Adoption
American Sign Language
Auditory Oral/Auditory Verbal
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-- B --
Babbling
Bottle Feeding
Brain Development
Breast Feeding
Burns, Prevention of
-- C --
Calming Your Baby
Car Seat Safety
Child and Teen Checkups (C & TC)
Child Care
Child Find (Concerns About Your Baby)
Choking/suffocation
Cochlear implants
Colic
Comforting Your Baby
Community Resources
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Crib Safety
Crying
Cued Speech
-- D --
Development of Your Baby
Discipline and Babies
Drowning
-- E --
Ear infections and early learning
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
Early Childhood Special Education
Early Head Start
Expectations for hearing aid usage
-- F --
Fall prevention
Family Stress
Fathering
Follow Along Program
Fussiness
-- G --
Grandparenting
Grief (see Pregnancy and Newborn Loss)
-- H --
Hearing (see Newborn Hearing Screening)
Hearing aids
Hearing loss and early brain development
Hearing loss: your child and school
-- I --
Imagination
Immunizations
Infant Self-Regulation
Interagency Early Intervention Committees (IEICs)
-- L --
Language Development
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning loss: parent support for learning language
-- M --
Maternal Depression
Mild hearing loss
Military Families
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
Multiple Intelligences
-- N --
Never leave a child alone in a vehicle
Newborn Hearing Screening
Newborn Screening
Newsletters
Noise and Children's Hearing
Nurturing Your Baby
Nutrition
-- O --
Oral Health
Overview of communication choices
-- P --
Parent and Child Relationships
Parenting Education Classes
Permanent hearing loss
Play
Poisoning, Preventing
Preemies and parenting issues
Preemies and their development
Preemies and their health
Pregnancy and Newborn Loss, Understanding Your Grief
Preterm Babies (Premies)
-- R --
Radon
Reading Aloud (Reading to Your Baby)
Reading Your Baby’s Clues
Responsive Parenting
Returning to Work/School
Routines/Schedules for Babies
-- S --
Second Hand Smoke
Selecting Toys
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Sleep
Social Emotional Development of the Older Infant
Social Emotional Development of the Young Infant
Stranger Awareness/Anxiety
Stress and Your Baby
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
-- T --
Talking to Your Baby
Teething
Television and Babies
Temperament
Toy Safety
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Tummy Time
-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Webinars for Parents (library)
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
By Sarah Thorson, BSW
Minnesota Department of Health
Sometimes infants come into the world with difficult health problems or develop illnesses and health challenges shortly after birth. If this happens with your baby, it can be scary and you might feel unsure about how to get help. It is important that you know there is a state program that exists just to help you get the best for your baby.
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN) is a state health department program that works on behalf of children and youth with special health needs, their families and communities. Children with special health care needs are those who have (or who are at increased risk for) a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that which is required by children generally(1).
MCSHN activities that can help your family:
- Providing you with guidance on becoming a partner with professionals in meeting your child's needs
- Access to primary care within a medical home
- Access to adequate funding for health care
- Early and continuous screening to detect and address health and developmental conditions as early as possible
- Developing well organized, community-based systems
- Transition to adult health care, work and independence
(1) McPherson M, Arango P, Fox H, et al. A new definition of children with special health care needs. Pediatrics.1998; 102(suppl) :137 -142
