Development Resources
From the moment they enter the world to their strides into adulthood, supporting your child's development is a journey filled with guidance, patience, and unwavering love. Providing a safe, encouraging environment at each stage, celebrating their milestones, and being their steadfast champion shapes not only their growth but also their confidence and resilience, laying the foundation for a fulfilling journey from infancy to adulthood.
Milestone tools
Development
- Autism spectrum disorder screening
- A to Z developmental delay
- Child development chart| Tabla de desarrollo infantil
- Delayed speech or language development
- Developmental delay tools
- Developmental guides and tools (cookchildrens.org)
- Does my toddler have a language delay?
- Early brain development and health
- Emotional development - preschoolers
- Feeding your newborn
- Getting enough exercise
- Learning, play and your 1-2 year-old
- Medical care – physical therapy
- Movement – gait abnormalities during the toddler years
- Movement – movement, coordination and your 1- to 2-year-old
- Movement – movement, coordination and your 1- to 3-month-old
- Movement – movement, coordination and your 4- to 7-month-old
- Movement – movement, coordination and your 8- to 12-month-old
- Movement – movement, coordination and your newborn
- Movement, coordination and your 1-2 year-old
- Movement, coordination, and your newborn
- Sleep – positional plagiocephaly (flattened head)
- Social development - preschoolers
- The basics of child development
Development - ages 0-2 years
- Developmental guides and tools
- Feeding your newborn
- Movement, coordination, and your newborn
- Your newborn's growth
- Your newborn's hearing, vision, and other senses
- Newborn
- One month
- Two months
- Four months
- Six months
- Nine months
- 12 months
- 15 months
- 18 months
- 2 years (24 months)
Development – toddlers
- 10 tips to prevent aggressive behavior in young children
- Assessing developmental delays video
- Cognitive development: one-year-old
- Cognitive development: two-year-old
- Developmental milestones: 2 year olds
- Emotional development: 1 year olds
- Emotional development: 2 year olds
- Hand and finger skills: 1 year olds
- Hand and finger skills: 2 year olds
- How to ease your child's separation anxiety
- How to raise concerns about a child's speech and language development: do's and don'ts
- How to share books with children 2 and 3 years old
- How to share books with your 12 to 14 month old
- How to share books with your 15 to 17 month old
- How to share books with your 18 to 23 month old
- Language delays in toddlers: information for parents
- Language development: 1 year olds
- Language development: 2 year olds
- Milestones during the first 2 years
- Movement and coordination
- Social development: 1 year olds
- Social development: 2 year olds
- Stuttering in toddlers & preschoolers: what's typical, what's not?
- Tips for grandparents of a 1-year-old
- Tips for grandparents of a 2-year-old
Development - preschool kids
- Cognitive development in preschool children
- Developmental milestones: 3 to 4 year olds
- Developmental milestones: 4 to 5 year olds
- Emotional development in preschoolers
- Growing independence: tips for parents of young children
- Hand and finger skills of your preschooler
Development – gradeschool kids
- Building blocks for healthy self esteem in kids
- Friend or foe?
- Gender identity development in children
- Gender-diverse & transgender children
- How to understand your child's temperament
- Parenting a gender-diverse child: hard questions answered
- Shyness in children
- Signs of low self-esteem in children & teens
- Strategies and solutions for handling a difficult child
- The disobedient child
Development - teens and tweens
- Independence, one step at a time
- Next stop adulthood: tips for parents
- One-on-one time with the pediatrician
- Stages of adolescence
- Teen years: truth telling & myth busting
- Teenagers and gangs
- Teens and sun: keeping them safe without ruining their fun
- Ways to build your teenager's self-esteem
- What's going on in the teenage brain?
Developing communication
- A to Z: autism
- A to Z: expressive language disorder
- A to Z: pervasive developmental disorder (PDD)
- Auditory processing disorder
- Communication and your newborn
- Communication and your 1- to 3-month-old
- Communication and your 4- to 7-month-old
- Communication and your 8- to 12-month-old
- Communication and your 1- to 2-year-old
- Communication and your 2- to 3-year-old
- Communication and your 4- to 5-year-old
- Communication and your 6- to 12-year-old
- Communication and your 13- to 18-year-old
- Delayed speech or language development
- Does my toddler have a language delay?
- Hearing aids
- Hearing loss
- Managing your toddler's behavior (video)
- Speech-language therapy
Medical care
- Medical care and your newborn
- Medical care and your 1- to 3-month-old
- Medical care and your 4- to 7-month-old
- Medical care and your 8- to 12-month-old
- Medical care and your 1- to 2-year-old
- Medical care and your 2- to 3-year-old
- Medical care and your 4- to 5-year-old
- Medical care and your 6- to 12-year-old
- Medical care and your 13- to 18-year-old