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Infant and Toddler Development
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- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
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- Anatomy/Physiology
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Overviews
- Overviews
- BrainWonders (Zero to Three)
- Developmental Milestones (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
- Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child's Development (Zero to Three)
Health Check Tools
- Health Check Tools
- Child Development Quiz: Preschool Milestones (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Activities to Encourage Speech and Language Development (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Delayed Speech or Language Development (Nemours Foundation)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Age 2 to 3 Years: Sleeping (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Ages 8 to 12 Months: Separation Anxiety (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Baby's First Month: Appearance and Growth (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Building Preschool and School Skills and Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Ambulatory Pediatric Association)
- Child Becomes a Reader: Birth through Preschool (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) - Large PDF file
- Child Behavior: What Parents Can Do to Change Their Child's Behavior (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - Developmental Milestones by the End of 12 Months (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Developmental Milestones by the End of 2 Years (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Developmental Milestones by the End of 3 Years (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Fighting and Biting (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Also available in: Spanish - Friendships in Early and Middle Childhood (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Power of Play (Nemours Foundation)
- Second Year: Cognitive Development (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Second Year: Family Relationships (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Social Development (Ambulatory Pediatric Association)
- Speech and Language: Developmental Milestones (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Also available in: Spanish - Temper Tantrums (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Thumb Sucking and Pacifiers (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Toddlers and Sexual Behavior (Virtual Hospital)
- Well Baby Report: For Your 4-Year-Old (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Well Child Report: For Your 5-Year-Old (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
Research
- Research
- Breathing Problems during Sleep May Affect Mental Development in Infants and Young Children (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
- New Lessons in How Brain Acquires Language (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Study Shows Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Greater for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Children (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
Anatomy/Physiology
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Brain Development: Frequently Asked Questions (Zero to Three)
- Growth Charts (Nemours Foundation)
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Glossary (Zero to Three)
- List of Terms Frequently Used in Developmental Assessment (Zero to Three)
Organizations
- Organizations
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- KidsHealth (Nemours Foundation)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families (Zero to Three)
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Good Start, Grow Smart: The Bush Administration's Early Childhood Initiative (White House)