Growth and Development

Child Development 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
www.women.com/family/tracker/

Child Health Guide: Put Prevention into Practice - Guide explains preventive care for children such as checkup visits, immunizations, and tests and exams. Provides guidance on growth and developmental issues.
www.ahcpr.gov/ppip/childguide/

Developmental Checklist - For typical kids age 0 to 5.
web.syr.edu/~rjkopp/data/devchklst.html

First Signs, Inc. - Information about developmental milestones and screening tools to detect early indications of social, emotional, communication, behavioral, and developmental disorders.
www.firstsigns.org

From Birth to Puberty - A practical guide to the parenting skills needed to help your child develop a healthy sexuality.
www.frombirthtopuberty.com/

Integrated Therapy for Children - 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.
www.integratedtherapy.co.uk

Key Concepts of Early Child Development - 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.
www.worldbank.org/children/what/

LaQuita's Speech-Language Development - 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.
ljames75.tripod.com/homepage

Preventing Harm - New physician-authored research links chemicals widely used by industry and commonly found at home to developmental disabilities, including behavioral and learning disabilities.
www.preventingharm.org/

Speech Delay - Expert information on speech language development, disorders, milestones and stages of development; ask the experts message board on speech and language issues.
www.speechdelay.com

Zero To Three - Nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the healthy development of babies and young children.
zerotothree.org/