Child Development Links

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)
(http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/)

Toddlers

Toddler development: from the National Network for Child Care
(http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/todd.dev.html)

Infant and Toddler development: from Medline Plus--The U. S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infantandtoddlerdevelopment.html)

Your Toddler's Development: from babycenter.com

Theory

Jean Piaget:  A summary of his life and theories from Muskingum College in Ohio.
(http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/piaget.htm#Theory)

Piaget's stages: another summary of his theories from the University of Alberta
(http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/%7Emike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/contents/P/piaget%27s_stages.html)

Theories of Child Development: from Funderstanding, an organization of educational consultants
(http://www.funderstanding.com/theories.cfm)

Child Development Basics From the Child Development Institute
(http://www.cdipage.com/)

Erik Erikson's Eight Stages of Human Development from about.com
 

Literacy

Language and Literacy Development birth to five years: from the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association (http://www.asha.org/default.htm)

Get Ready to Read from the National Center for Learning Disabilities (http://www.getreadytoread.org/)

Children's Literature Webguide: from the University of Calgary (http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/)