Meet the team!
Help Me Grow & Early Intervention
Help Me Grow
Shana Miller
Help Me Grow Project Manager & Contract Manager for Part C Early Intervention
Phone: 740-393-5720
Email: smiller@knoxdd.com
Tisha King
Help Me Grow Home Visiting Supervisor
Office: 740-397-4656
Email: tking@knoxdd.com
Our Help Me Grow program uses the Growing Great Kids Curriculum to help parents and caregivers build strong relationships, learn to have a voice and a choice so that every child in our program feels loved and valued.
Roxanne Berry
Help Me Grow Home Visitor
Office: 740-393-5718
Email: Rberry@knoxdd.com
Our Help Me Grow program uses the Growing Great Kids Curriculum to help parents and caregivers build strong relationships, learn to have a voice and a choice so that every child in our program feels loved and valued.
Angie Smith
Help Me Grow Home Visitor
Office: 740-393-5720
Email: asmith@knoxdd.com
Our Help Me Grow program uses the Growing Great Kids Curriculum to help parents and caregivers build strong relationships, learn to have a voice and a choice so that every child in our program feels loved and valued.
Early Intervention
Brenda Coffman
Early Childhood Director
Phone: 740-393-6977
Email: bcoffman@knoxdd.com
An Early Childhood Director supervises and supports staff, oversees daily activities, develops and ensures policies and procedures and monitors services to families and children
Cheryl Tokasz
Early Intervention Service Coordinator
Office: 740-393-6983
Email: ctokasz@knoxdd.com
A Service Coordinator (SC) is the first point of contact for Early Intervention services. The SC completes the intake visit, schedules the developmental evaluation and assessment, writes the Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP), refers for necessary services, and monitors the IFSP to ensure EI services are being delivered per the plan. The SC also coordinates family resource requests, and provides families with resources and information within the community.
Bev Roscoe
Early Intervention Service Coordinator
Office: 740-393-5714
Email: broscoe@knoxdd.com
A Service Coordinator (SC) is the first point of contact for Early Intervention services. The SC completes the intake visit, schedules the developmental evaluation and assessment, writes the Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP), refers for necessary services, and monitors the IFSP to ensure EI services are being delivered per the plan. The SC also coordinates family resource requests, and provides families with resources and information within the community.
Kim Laws
Early Childhood Developmental Specialist
Office: 740-393-5719
Email: klaws@knoxdd.com
A Developmental Specialist (DS) is an expert in typical and atypical development of children birth through age 5. A DS is often assigned when a child has a delay in more than one developmental area (adaptive, motor, communication, vision, hearing, medical).
Alexis Mitchell
Early Childhood Developmental Specialist
Office: 740-393-5724
Email: amitchell@knoxdd.com
A Developmental Specialist (DS) is an expert in typical and atypical development of children birth through age 5. A DS is often assigned when a child has a delay in more than one developmental area (adaptive, motor, communication, vision, hearing, medical).
Ganae Knapp
Developmental Specialist- Service Coordinator
Office: 740-397-4712
Email: gknapp@knoxdd.com
Kae Van Fossen
Speech Language Pathologist, PLAY Project
Email: kvanfossen@knoxdd.com
Speech/Language Pathologists are experts in expressive and receptive communication, what children say or sign and what children understand.
Deb Romas
Speech Language Pathologist
Email: dromasinc@aol.com
Speech/Language Pathologists are experts in expressive and receptive communication, what children say or sign and what children understand.
Stacey Ciraky
Physical Therapist
Email: Sciraky@knoxdd.com
Physical Therapists (PT) are experts in gross motor skills focusing on mobility such as rolling, crawling, walking and climbing.
Alicia Gottfried
Occupational Therapist
Email: agottfried@knoxdd.com
Occupational Therapists (OT) are experts in fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, sensory processing, and feeding issues.
Sarah Welsh
Early Intervention Vision Services
Ohio State School for the Blind
Email: SWelsh@OSDB.oh.gov
An Early Intervention Vision Specialist is an expert in visual impairments providing strategies, resources, and education to families specific to their child’s visual impairment and how it may be affecting his/her development.
Ronda Hartman, LPC, BS
Regional EI Mental Consultant / Therapist
OhioGuidestone
Email: Ronda.Hartman@ohioguidestone.org
Provides resources and evidence-based strategies to the Primary Service Provider (PSP), Early Intervention team and the family on how to promote social emotional development during daily routines.
Laurie Sabel
Regional Early Intervention Public Health Nutritionist
Email: LSable@holmeshealth.org
An Early Intervention Nutritionist provides resources and support to the Primary Service Provider (PSP), Early Intervention team and the family on nutrition, feeding concerns and childhood lead poisoning.
Alyse Bachmann, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
Tele-EI Hearing Services
Akron Children's Hospital
Speech/Language Pathologists are experts in expressive and receptive communication, what children say or sign and what children understand.