Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Missouri Statewide Parent Involvement Network (MoSPIN)
Left: Parent Advisor, Sherri Nichols, and her family celebrated their 100 th visit together. They celebrated with stockings filled with a 100-piece puzzle, 100 stickers, and 100 candy canes.
The purpose of the Missouri Statewide Parent Involvement Network (MoSPIN) is to provide a free homebased program for families of children, birth through five years of age, who are visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities and combined vision and hearing challenges. Services are coordinated with local education agencies, adult service providers and deafblind task forces to enhance networking and to build expertise in the community.
MoSPIN provides:
- Home visits by parent advisors… parents select one or two hour visits, not to exceed four hours per month;
- Focus on parents as their child’s first and most important teacher;
- Information to help parents understand their child’s visual diagnosis and learning characteristics;
- Parent lessons on vision, communication, motor, hearing or cognition from the national INSITE curriculum;
- Ongoing support and provision of resources to families.
Left: A child uses an
APH Light Box Kit during her MoSPIN home visit.
For additional information regarding the MoSPIN program or activities relating to families of children with combined vision and hearing loss, contact:
Melissa Moore, Lead Parent Advisor MoSPIN, Family Engagement Coordinator
Missouri School for the Blind
3815 Magnolia Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
314-633-1591 or Melissa.Moore@msb.dese.mo.gov
To submit forms: please download to your computer, fill out, save and e-mail to Melissa.Moore@msb.dese.mo.gov
- MoSPIN Frequently Asked Questions
- MoSPIN Factsheet
- Parent Referral
- Agency Referral
- You Could be a PA!
- Funding Sources MoAT
- Milestone Tracker for iOS, Android and in Spanish
- Sources of Funding
- Archived Parent Time Newsletters - For reference use only
- October 2020 (PDF)
- October 2020 (txt)
- February 2020 (PDF)
- February 2020 (txt)
- October 2019 (PDF)
- October 2019 (txt)
- Department of Elementary and Secondary Education