Childhood - Early and Middle
National Organizations on Children
This organization provides data for optimal physical, mental, and social health for all children. The site provides links to publications, professional educational sources and current research.
The mission of the Center on the Developing Child is to drive science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity. The Center believes that advances in science provide a powerful source of new ideas focused on the early years of life. Founded in 2006, the Center catalyzes local, national, and international innovation in policy and practice focused on children and families. We design, test, and implement these ideas in collaboration with a broad network of research, practice, policy, community, and philanthropic leaders. Together, we seek transformational impacts on lifelong learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.
An advocacy organization for children.
This is the nation's largest organization of early childhood professionals devoted to improving the quality of early childhood education programs for children from birth to age 8. Includes resources for parents and a list of accredited centers. Also includes a wealth of information on such topics as SIDS, self-esteem, building positive relationships, automobile safety learning through olay, guidelines for developmentally appropriate practices.
NACD is an international organization of parents and professionals dedicated to helping children and adults reach their full potential. Includes research and articles on such topics as ADD, ADHD, learning disabilities, dyslexia, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, minimal brain dysfunction, accelerated programs for the gifted. Site also includes a new study on the role of short-term memory on academic achievement. Also includes articles published from the Journal of the National Academy for Child Development on such topics as food sensitivity, sensory deprivation, child management, ADD and many more.
An outline of the UN human rights treaty. Includes description on international standards for children's civil, political, economic, cultural and social rights.
Provides international reports on children's news, recent UNICEF publications, statistics on women and children worldwide, as well as other global children's rights information.
Early Childhood
The Center on the Developing Child created this Guide to Toxic Stress to clear up the confusion and help you learn the facts about toxic stress step by step.
This ERIC Digest report is on helping children deal effectively with aggression. Developing prosocial attitudes and behaviors is its goal.
CNRC is dedicated to defining the nutrient needs of healthy children, from conception through adolescence, and of pregnant and nursing mothers.
Child development theory, programming and parenting data, and research can be found on this site of the Consultative Group. it is dedicated to the improvement of conditions of young children at risk.
Details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving - in the face of war, poverty, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic - to protect the rights and meet the needs of young children.
Information on hearing, understanding, and talking by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Includes developmental milestones from birth to 5 years.
Serve and return interactions shape brain architecture. When an infant or young child babbles, gestures, or cries, and an adult responds appropriately with eye contact, words, or a hug, neural connections are built and strengthened in the child’s brain that support the development of communication and social skills. Much like a lively game of tennis, volleyball, or Ping-Pong, this back-and-forth is both fun and capacity-building.
Five Steps for Building Serve and Return (Handout)
The non-profit organization behind Sesame Street and more. Includes educational resources for parents, educators and more.
Gathers and disseminates information on early childhood development.
A site at the University of Chicago dedicated to advancing research on early childhood development.The site includes the research of Susan Goldin-Meadow on children and gesturing. Major research areas of the initiative include: academic achievement, brain development, cognition, language, maternal factors in development, neurological disorders and social programs.
A site developed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Through toys, children learn about their world, themselves and others. This site helps you to understand the importance of play and how to choose the correct structure and toys for play.
Healthy development in the early years (particularly birth to three) provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation. What can we do during this incredibly important period to ensure that children have a strong foundation for future development? The Center on the Developing Child created this Guide to Early Childhood Development (ECD) to help parents, caregivers, practitioners, and policymakers understand the importance of early childhood development and learn how to support children and families during this critical stage.
Middle Childhood
Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Looks at early childhood transitions. Includes a network of experts from diverse fields. Major areas of research includes: continuity and transitions, context, psychological processes, diversity and intervention.
Language Development
A joint project of the Corporation for National Service, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Shows a developmental milestone chart on language development from infancy through childhood. Also takes you to another Chart outlining activities to help children learn language.
Cognitive Development
Videos on Multiple Intelligence
World Symposium Featuring Dr. Howard Gardner
Children's Literature
A wonderful site about children & their literature by Kay Vandergrift, Rutger's University.
Children and Allergies
Information, definitions and tips for parents of asthmatic children.
An overview of allergies that children may acquire. Provides pointers on potential problem spots for children with allergies and tips to help children and their parents effectively manage allergies.
Discusses the causes of allergic reactions to dust.
Information of foods that cause allergies and how to deal with children and food allergies.
A national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early childhood development a top priority for our nation. Includes resources and research on parenting, stages of development, child care, brain facts and more.
Causes, triggers, treatment and management.
Parenting in Childhood
Ted Talk Video on the needs of children.
This resource focuses on issues concerning single parents and their children.
This is an ERIC clearinghouse on elementary and early childhood education. The site contains resources related to many controversial issues faced by parents raising children in contemporary society.
Research Issues and Findings on Childhood
Children Now focuses on improving conditions for children who are poor or at risk. Articles include information on education, the influence of media, health, and security.
Site provides overview of institute's mission, research publications, etc. Conducts and supports laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families and populations. Includes the Cochrane Neonatal Colloborative Review Group with a host of research articles on neonatal development. See new releases of research findings under "News & Events."
Raising and Educating Gifted Children
Investigates the development of learning processes in children and adults. Mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking and creativity in the arts and other disciplines for individuals and institutions.
Provides extensive information on 28 areas of giftedness, including identifying gifted children, gifted children with disabilities, models of best practices, longitudinal studies, and much more.
An excellent site. Discusses the psychosocial development of gifted children as well as the stress they experience as a result of being gifted.
The Center of Linda Kreeger Silverman, Ph.D. on gifted children.
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck on the subject of motivation.
Child Abuse
This site provides a wealth of resources and information on child abuse prevention efforts. The site also provides statistics and parenting tips.
Extensive biological and developmental research shows significant neglect—the ongoing disruption or significant absence of caregiver responsiveness—can cause more lasting harm to a young child’s development than overt physical abuse, including subsequent cognitive delays, impairments in executive functioning, and disruptions of the body’s stress response. This edition of the InBrief series explains why significant deprivation is so harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation. This 6-minute video provides an overview of The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain, a Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
Disorders in Childhood
A rare chromosomal abnormality called Prader-Willi syndrome, which causes low muscle tone and impairs signaling between the brain and the stomach.
Site includes many resources and topics such as definitions and symptoms, treatment, drug issues, family issues, support groups and other research.
Discusses the positive advantages of dyslexia. Includes information on dyslexia and the Davis training methods for overcoming learning problems, worldwide centers for correction, forums for networking, articles and reports on different learning styles, educational approaches, and guides for teachers and parents.
The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong access and opportunities for persons who are autistic through advocacy, public awareness, education and research.
The Forgotten History of Autism
Indigo Children
A book published in 1999, by Lee Caroll and Jan Tobler
A new international magazine about Indigo children, with some on-line articles from each issue.
Learn the characteristics and differences between these two types of Indigo children.
A comprehensive website on Indigo children and adults.
According to reports, a young boy called Boris Kipriyanovich, who lives in Russia’s Volgograd region, is a reincarnated Indigo Child. His knowledge and skills have fascinated not only his parents but researchers who have studied the young boy. Article with video.
An overview of the Indigo Child.
About the film and the characters.
A news report from KHOU TV News in Houston, TX on an indigo child. You can watch this report from your computer.
See how one education program approaches teaching and learning for indigo children.
Videos
Children Learn What They Live-Les Crane
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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
July 2010 -- Marc Weisskopf, assistant professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology, discusses a study that finds children exposed to higher levels of pesticides known as organophosphates could have a higher risk of being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). (2:02)
Videos on Multiple Intelligence
World Symposium Featuring Dr. Howard Gardner
Videos on Indigo Children
ABC News-Indigo Children
An Indigo on Oprah
CNN-Anderson Cooper-Indigo Children
Project Camelot Interviews Boriska
The Indigo Evolution-Documentary
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