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New physician-authored research links chemicals widely used by industry and commonly found at home to developmental disabilities, including behavioral and learning disabilities.
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Preventing Harm Awareness of learning and behavioral disorders is reaching more and more people, either first hand or through someone we know. Can toxics in our air, water or food combine with other factors to keep our children from reaching their full...All children progress through an identifiable sequence of physical, cognitive, and emotional growth and change. Children respond best when caregivers use specific techniques designed to encourage and stimulate progress.
http://www.worldbank.org/children/what/
Guide explains preventive care for children such as checkup visits, immunizations, and tests and exams. Provides guidance on growth and developmental issues.
http://www.ahcpr.gov/ppip/ppchild.htm
Integrated Therapy for Children provided by Judy Sommer offers help with children with learning difficulties including dyspraxia, clumsy child, developmental co-ordination disorder, slow learner, slow reader, speech delay, poor gross and fine motor skills and poor handwriting.
http://www.integratedtherapy.co.uk
This personal site by a professional speech-language pathologist provides information on speech-language development in infants and toddlers. Find information about disorders of speech and language and where to seek help, on signs of impaired speech and language in small children and steps for remediating these disorders.
http://ljames75.tripod.com/homepage
Year-by-year guide to child development for parents of 1 year olds to 12th graders, including advice, activities, and support of common challenges. Provided by Women.com
http://www.women.com/family/tracker/
Nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the healthy development of babies and young children.
http://zerotothree.org/
Expert information on speech language development, disorders, milestones and stages of development; comprehensive ask the experts message board on speech and language issues.
http://www.speechdelay.com
For typical kids age 0 to 5.
http://web.syr.edu/~rjkopp/data/devchklst.html
Information about developmental milestones and screening tools to detect early indications of social, emotional, communication, behavioral, and developmental disorders.
http://www.firstsigns.org