growth and development

    Top: Health: Child_Health: Infant_and_Toddlers: Growth_and_Development:

• Top/Health/Child Health/Growth and Development

• - 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.
  
• - Provides information and advice aimed at improving the future performance of children, starting before birth.
  
• - Information on cognitive and developmental milestones at each stage from birth to 4 years old.
  
• - Reviewed articles on growth and development issues in toddlers.
  
• - Article by David Chamberlain, PhD describing research showing that babies are conscious before and during birth.
  
• - Monitoring growth and development in the premature infant: An article from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  
• - Article outlining milestones and important aspects of speech development.
  
• - Ages and stages. What to expect as your child's communication skills develop and when to seek help. Authored by a certified Speech Pathologist.
  
• - Measure your baby's length, weight, and head circumference, enter the figures, and calculate an estimate of where your baby stands compared to other children his age.
  
• - Links to reviewed articles focusing on infant growth and development.
  
• - Discusses milestones, the causes of motor, language, social and global delays in development, and proposed course of action.