Ages and Stages: How to Monitor Child Development
Healthline.com's checklist of developmental milestones from birth to school age.

Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
This website provides resources curated by the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child, an institution whose mission is to drive science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity.

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
This website offers a collection of more than 20,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education.

Child Development Basics, CDC
This website is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) home for information on child developmental milestones, health, and suggested parenting practices.

Child Development Theories and Examples
This webpage provides brief introductions to the most common theories of child development.

Connecticut Association for the Education of Young Children
The Connecticut Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC) looks to enhance the care, education, and development of Connecticut's young children, in the context of family, and community; and to support the professionals who care for them.

Connecticut Birth to Three System
The mission of the Birth to Three System is to strengthen the capacity of families to meet the developmental and health-related needs of their infants and toddlers who have delays or disabilities.

Connecticut State Department of Education – Early Childhood Education
The Connecticut State Board of Education is committed to ensuring that all of the state’s preschool-age children, including children with disabilities, are afforded an opportunity to participate in a high-quality preschool education. There are many publications on this website related to Early Childhood Education.

Connecticut State Department of Education/State Education Resource Center
The State Education Resource Center (SERC) is a nonprofit agency primarily funded by the Connecticut State Department of Education. SERC provides professional development and information dissemination in the latest research and best practices to educators, service providers, and families throughout the state, as well as job-embedded technical assistance and training within schools, programs, and districts.

Developmental Disabilities, CDC
The CDC's homepage for childhood developmental disabilities. Includes link to developmental disabilities facts such as milestones, monitoring and screening, and causes and risk factors.

Developmental Milestones, CDC
The CDC's homepage for childhood developmental milestones. Specific pages range from 2 months to 5 years.

From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
An overview by the Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center covering the findings of a 2000 study by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine on the science behind early childhood development.

Initial Practice-Based Professional Standards for Early Interventionists/Early Childhood Special Educators 2020, Division for Early Childhood
The standards and components of the The Initial Practice-Based Professional Standards for Early Interventionists/Early Childhood Special Educators 2020 by the Division of Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Intentional Inclusion For Multicultural Classrooms, The Preschool Podcast
An episode of The Preschool Podcast where the hosts talk with K’Sandra Earle, Associate Director of Early Learning Neighbourhood Collective (ELNC), about how to be intentional about diversity in early learning classrooms.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NEAYC)
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.

National Institute for Early Education Research
The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) conducts and communicates research to support high quality, effective, early childhood education for all young children. Such education enhances their physical, cognitive, and social development, and subsequent success in school and later life.

Society for Research in Child Development
The purposes of the Society are to promote multidisciplinary research in the field of human development, to foster the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals of various disciplines, and to encourage applications of research findings.

Zero to Three
Zero to Three is a national nonprofit organization that informs, trains and supports professionals, policymakers and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers.

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Child development

Child development, Philosophy

Child psychology

Child psychology, Methodology

Cognition in children

Developmental neurobiology

Developmental psychology

Early childhood education, Philosophy

Growth, Infant

Growth, Toddler

Human Development

Infants, Development

Observation (Educational method)

Toddlers, Development