Explore the Human Growth & Development below.

• Why high functioning autism is so challenging.
• Northwestern University Innovations in Developmental Sciences
• ThinkBabies
• 21st Century Cures Bill Includes Important Mental Health Grants for Very Young Children
• Policy Statement on Media and Young Minds
• Save Childhood Movement
• Professionals Partnering with Newborns and Their Families
• Resources to Support Incorporating Playful Approaches to Learning and Development
• The Complex Lives of Babies
• Poverty and Child Health in the United States
• POLICY STATEMENT ON SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS
• How Child Care Made Humans Smart
• Preschool Inclusion Key Findings from Research and Implications for Policy
• How Trauma is Changing Children's Brains
• Development of Boys and Young Men of Color
• Preparing Teachers to Promote Young Children's Optimal Social Emotional Learning
• Supporting Infant/Early Childhood Professionals through Mental Health Consultation
• Developmental Foundations of School Readiness for Infants and Toddlers: A Research to Practice Report
• National Center for Children in Poverty
• The Superior Social Skills of Bilinguals
• Why Infants and Toddlers Are So Exhausting
• Growing Up With Undocumented Parents: The Challenges Children Face
• Supporting the School Readiness and Success of Young African American Boys Project
• Raising Young Children in a New Country: Supporting Early Learning and Healthy Development
• Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast
• World Association for Infant Mental Health
• The Gift of Time? School Starting Age and Mental Health
• Federal Agencies Join To Help Young Children Thrive
• Responding to the Tennessee PreK Study
• Illinois Association of Infant Mental Health
• Research finds no advantage in learning to read from age five
• The Thirty Million Word Gap
• Mind in the Making
• Executive Function Skills
• Safe, Healthy and Ready to Learn
• STRESS HORMONE LINKED TO LEARNING DELAY IN TODDLERS
• Early Care and Education Policy Statements from Zero to Three
• Social and Emotional Health Policy Statements from Zero to Three
• Intervention Techniques for Working with Trauma-Impacted Young Children
• Black Children and Autism: The Difference Is Black and White
• Recognizing Trauma and Its Impact on Young Children: Implications for EC Teacher Educators
• The Impact of Pretend Play on Children's Development: A Review of the Evidence
• TED TALK: The Linguistic Genius of Babies
• WestEd - Infant and Toddler Reflective Curriculum Planning, Part I
• STANFORD NEWS SERVICE “LANGUAGE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR CHILDREN BEGINS IN INFANCY, STANFORD PSYCHOLOGISTS FIND”
• NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION "READINESS FOR SCHOOL INVOLVES AN ARRAY OF SKILLS: LET’S NOT FORGET FINE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT"