Knowledge: growth and development
Links
- Key Concepts of Early Child Development
http://www.worldbank.org/children/what/ - All children progress through an identifiable sequence of physical, cognitive, and emotional growth and change. Children respond best when caregivers use specific techniques designed to encourage and stimulate progress.
- Integrated Therapy for Children
http://www.integratedtherapy.co.uk - Integrated Therapy for Children provided by Judy Sommer offers help with children with learning difficulties including dyspraxia, clumsy child, developmental co-ordination disorder, slow learner, slow reader, speech delay, poor gross and fine motor skills and poor handwriting.
- LaQuita's Speech-Language Development
http://ljames75.tripod.com/homepage - This personal site by a professional speech-language pathologist provides information on speech-language development in infants and toddlers. Find information about disorders of speech and language and where to seek help, on signs of impaired speech and language in small children and steps for remediating these disorders.
- Preventing Harm
http://www.preventingharm.org/ - New physician-authored research links chemicals widely used by industry and commonly found at home to developmental disabilities, including behavioral and learning disabilities.
- Child Development Tracker
http://www.women.com/family/tracker/ - Year-by-year guide to child development for parents of 1 year olds to 12th graders, including advice, activities, and support of common challenges. Provided by Women.com
- Zero To Three
http://zerotothree.org/ - Nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the healthy development of babies and young children.
- Speech Delay
http://www.speechdelay.com - Expert information on speech language development, disorders, milestones and stages of development; comprehensive ask the experts message board on speech and language issues.
- From Birth to Puberty
http://www.frombirthtopuberty.com/ - A practical guide to the parenting skills needed to help your child develop a healthy sexuality.
- Developmental Checklist
http://web.syr.edu/~rjkopp/data/devchklst.html - For typical kids age 0 to 5.
- First Signs, Inc.
http://www.firstsigns.org - Information about developmental milestones and screening tools to detect early indications of social, emotional, communication, behavioral, and developmental disorders.
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