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A general understanding of child development to helps you to provide developmentally appropriate activities, programs, services, and collections. It also helps you make sure you and the rest of your coworkers have realistic expectations for behavior.
Resources
Every child develops differently, but if you have a general idea of what to expect it can help make your services more effective and enjoyable.
- The Centers for Disease Control Developmental Milestones is a great starting place:
- Zero to Three has quite a few resources for the youngest children, including:
- American Academy of Pediatrics has:
- Early Relational Developmental Milestones for children ages 2 months to 5 years
- Bright Beginnings is a succinct matrix of developmental milestones (social, verbal, and gross and fine motor) for newborns through 21 year olds.
- For a deeper dive and some activities related to early childhood brain development, take a look at the resources from the Harvard Center for the Developing Child.