helpful Links
The following websites contain content that we find helpful and informative. These links are provided for your convenience and do not constitute our medical opinion. Would you like to share a great online resource? Please let us know
General Pediatric Health and Wellness Information
- The American Academy of Pediatrics website for parents.
- Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital website
- Nemours Childrens’ Hospitals. — One of the largest non-profit organizations devoted to children’s health.
- Centers for Disease Control. — Excellent source for general health information, environmental health, and travelers health. Travelers health includes risks and precautions for travel worldwide. Recommended vaccines or medications for travelers.
- Food and Drug Administration. — Good source for public health information
Vaccines and Immunizations
- www.immunizationinfo.org — THE BEST SITE FOR PARENTS on vaccines. Have a concern? This site will answer all your questions.
- www.immunize.org. — The best site for healthcare professionals on vaccines.
- www.cdc.gov/vaccines. — Part of the Centers for Disease Prevention website on vaccines
- Vaccine Education — Center of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- The current child and adolescent recommended vaccination schedules.
Allergies and Asthma
Car Seat Safety
- Proper car seat installation — SeatCheck is a national campaign to help parents properly secure their children in motor vehicles. Central to the program is a free child safety seat inspection locator service. These SeatCheck resources provide a listing of more than 4,000 local inspection locations staffed by trained and certified child safety seat technicians, so finding one near you should be easy.
- Tennessee’s Child Restraint Law
Poison Control Center of Tennessee
- Tennessee Poison Center — A comprehensive poison resource center located and the statewide poison emergency information and resource center for the public and health care professionals.
Nutrition and Fitness
- www.choosemyplate.gov — Nutrition education and guidance from the federal government United States Department of Agriculture
- Get Fit Tennessee — A statewide awareness program developed to address the rising epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and risk factors that lead to diabetes, like obesity.
- www.BAM.gov — From the Centers for Disease Control, learn about fitness, food and nutrition, exercise, disease, and safety. Take a quiz, play a game, or create a fitness calendar.
- KidShape Foundation — A non-profit organization that helps overweight and obese children and their families lose weight and become more healthy.
- www.waytogokids.com — A nutrition and fitness education program designed for 9 to 14 yr olds.
- The National Center for Physical Activity and Disability encourages persons with disabilities to participate in regular physical activity to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent secondary conditions.
- We CAN! — A great resource for ways to Enhance Children’s Activity and Nutrition.
Internet safety
- OpenDNS — Web filtering system, provided as a free service. Good for your home computer.
- Social Shield — Moniters your child’s facebook activity for risky or inappropriate behavior to keep your child safer, while also not invading their privacy.
Specific Conditions and Organizations
- Autism society of middle tn — The mission of the ASMT is to enrich the lives and experiences of individuals on the autism spectrum, their families, and their surrounding community through support, advocacy, and education.
- RIP, Regional Intervention Program
Incredible program where parents teach other parents discipline skills for children with difficult behavioral issues. Serves children age 6 yrs and under. - Down Syndrome Association of Middle TN — Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee (DSAMT) is the definitive resource in Middle Tennessee for accurate and up-to-date information on Down syndrome and a community resource for self-advocates and their families, educators and disability professionals.
- United Cerebral Palsy of Middle TN — UCPMT serves Tennessee with programs targeted at our mission to advance the independence and full citizenship of people with disabilities. UCPMT focuses on services to individuals of all ages who have a variety of physical disabilities that primarily affect mobility.
- Epilepsy Foundation
Assistance – Disability and Development
- www.familypathfinder.org -– Tennessee Disability Pathfinder is a database of Tennessee agencies and a disability events calendar. Find information on transportation, family support, education, recreation and summer camps, advocacy and law, child care, and much more.
- www.tn.gov/education/teis – A voluntary educational program for families with children ages birth to three years old with disabilities or developmental delays. TEIS is a program of Tennessee’s Department of Education, Division of Special Education, Office of Early Childhood. Early intervention is crucial for providing a good education to children with special needs.