Reference Desk
- Is My Child On Track?
- Kindergarten Readiness
- Learning To Read
- Types of Schools
- Learning Personalities
- Standards and Testing
- Gifted Children
- The Early Years (3-5)
- The Middle Years (6-12)
- The Teen Years (13-18)
- Parent-School Connection
- Your Parenting Style
- Keeping Your Kids Healthy
- Extracurricular Activities
- Life Skills
- Thinking About College
- Special Needs
Is My Child On Track? |
The second and third years of life include continued rapid growth and development in the cognitive, motor, social and emotional, and language domains. Understanding the norms of development during this time and ways to assess your child’s progress will ensure your child is off to a great start in life.
Screening Tools and Developmental Delays
- Child Development and Public Health
- Developmental Disabilities
- Facts about Developmental Screening Tools
- Developmental Screening
- The Early Reader Isn't Always the Bookworm
General Development
- Growth and Development, Ages Zero to Three: What Parents Need to Know
- Developmental Milestones: Age - 3 Years (Medline Plus)
- Preschool Development: What's Typical for Your Preschooler
Cognitive
- Cognitive Development: The First Five Years
- Cognitive Development: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- How Your Preschooler Thinks
- The Senses and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
Physical Growth
- Growth and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
- Growth and Your 2- to 3-Year-Old
- Growth and Development, Ages Zero to Three: What Parents Need to Know
- Your Child's Growth
- Growing Pains
Motor and Movement
- Movement, Coordination, and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
- Hand and Finger Skills: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Motor Development: The First Five Years
- Movement: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Teaching your Child to Swim
Social Emotional
- Assessing Young Children's Social Competence
- Social and Emotional Development: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Social and Emotional Growth: The First Five Years
- Young Children's Social Development: A Checklist
- Young Children's Emotional Development and School Readiness
- Social Graces: What to Expect from Your Preschooler
- Boys and Guns: Okay to Play?
- The Question of Gender: How Gender Affects The Preschool Years
- Childhood Fears
Language
- Communication and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
- Communication and Your 2- to 3-Year-Old
- Young Children's Oral Language Development
- Language and Communication: The First Five Years
- Language: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Typical Language Accomplishments for Children, Birth to Age 6
- Child Development Tracker: Literacy From Age 3 to 4
- Look Who's Talking
- Delayed Speech or Language Development
- The Low-down on Stuttering
- Help for Speech Development
