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1.Child Health Record
Online brochure on health, and growth and development issues from birth to teenage years.
URL:http://hna.ffh.vic.gov.au/phd/9710045/
2.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.
URL:http://ljames75.tripod.com/homepage
3.Care of the Premature Infant
Monitoring growth and development in the premature infant: An article from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
URL:http://www.aafp.org/afp/980501ap/trachten.html
4.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.
URL:http://www.ahcpr.gov/ppip/ppchild.htm
5.Catch A Falling Star Child Behavioral Plans
Behavioral change packets to include behavorial plans and tools to achieve success in modifying or eliminating inappropriate behaviors in children.
URL:http://www.catchafallingstar-me.com
6.Child Development Basics
Provides parents with information on physical, mental and emotional growth and development from prenatal to teenage.
URL:http://www.cdipage.com/development.htm
7.The Brazelton Institute
Focuses on the health and development of the newborn infant. Read about the Brazelton Scale, a comprehensive newborn behavioral assessment tool and view the organization's newsletter.
URL:http://www.childrenshospital.org/brazelton/index.html
8.EducatingBaby
Provides the latest research on infant and child brain development. Additionally, offers parent education on child cognitive behavioral development.
URL:http://www.educatingbaby.com/
9.From Birth to Puberty
A practical guide to the parenting skills needed to help your child develop a healthy sexuality.
URL:http://www.frombirthtopuberty.com/
10.Playwork Is Wicked
A site designed to communicate the importance of play and imagination for children by sharing philosophical beliefs surrounding child development and the role of creative play.
URL:http://www.geocities.com/catherineheywood/
11.Child Development Information for Grandparents
Features on grandchild development from infants to adolescents. Includes what to expect, relationships and bonding, and other subjects.
URL:http://www.igrandparents.com/grandtopics/childdevelopment.asp
12.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.
URL:http://www.integratedtherapy.co.uk
13.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.
URL:http://www.preventingharm.org/
14.Speech Delay
Expert information on speech language development, disorders, milestones and stages of development; comprehensive ask the experts message board on speech and language issues.
URL:http://www.speechdelay.com
15.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
URL:http://www.women.com/family/tracker/
16.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.
URL:http://www.worldbank.org/children/what/
17.Zero To Three
Nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the healthy development of babies and young children.
URL:http://zerotothree.org/
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