I've removed a few posts from this thread and collated a list of sites and book titles that members have personally recommended:
BOOKS
-- Carolyn Meggitt: Child Development birth to 16 years.
-- Child Development: An Illustrated Guide 2nd edition by Carolyn Meggitt (Paperback - 19 Jan 2006).
--- CHILDREN'S CARE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT 0-16 Years by Teena Kamen
--- Childrens care learning and development candidate handbook by miranda walker
--- CCLD S/NVQ3 By Penny Tassoni, Kath Bulmen & Kate Beith
Quote from Butterfyfllutterby: How to Observe Children by Sheila Riddall-Leech: It looks at the Physical Development, Cognitive and Language development and Emotional and Social Development of children from Birth - Eleven Years old. She linked all the developmental stages in with a theorist
-----------------------------------------------
Website links:
Fisher price:
http://www.fisher-price.com/us/playstages/
---- http://www.raisingkids.co.uk/dev/dev.asp
---- www.ask-nanny.com/child-development.html
---- Know the Signs Act Early : USA CDCP
---- http://www.greatschools.net/articles/?topics=193&language=EN
QUOTE: Karen15
I found ivillage quite helpful as well. Log onto ivillage then go onto Parenting then (search) for Development charts.
Quote from Kayt:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...ly+years&meta=
- choose the one titled 'Developmental Milestone Summary' it will bring up an Adobe document.
http://www.child-development-guide.c...milestone.html - the only thing this one doesnt have is sensory.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Promoting-Ch...r--Development - sensory development
http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/cognitive.html
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/language_development.shtml
------------------------------------------
From Brandy: these are good child development sites they may help you.
Child development websites.
http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/social.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/your_...evstages.shtml
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/child/
http://raisingchildren.net.au/develo...velopment.html
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/Page...r_key_brainFAQ
http://www.cyh.com.au/HealthTopics/H...es.aspx?&p=122
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/...elopment.shtml
http://www.kidsdevelopment.co.uk/Fam...velopment.html
http://pediatric.health.ivillage.com...velopment5.cfm
http://www.littleab.com/ABcare/develoment.html
http://www.raisingkids.co.uk/dev/dev.asp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/about/howchildrenlearn/
http://www.investinkids.ca/parents/ages-and-stages.aspx
-----------------------------------
RECOMMENDED IN THE NVQ4 Forum:
From Minx:
I found
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issu...ld/ea7lk18.htm
and http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~play/L...2-Theories.pdf
From Cabin:
Understanding Child Development, Linking Theory and Practice - Jennie Lindon, is good for linking development to theory in more depth, and is set out in a nice easy format
From sally24:
http://choosers.ivillage.co.uk/paren...pment_tracker/
----------------------------------
Please, if anyone enrols with a course, training provider or whose own setting works with development information in ways that supports students throughout the duration of their enrolment and have reasoning to course costs known .. please feel free to post or get in touch.
Alternatively please always feel free to post links to sites and information that you've found helped with your Child development research ..
Thank you xx