Child Development Resources
ASQ-SE Social-Emotional Development Guide
This guide offers age-appropriate milestones in social-emotional development for children from 2 months to 60 months.
Baby and Toddler Milestones
In this public service video for parents, Lisa Shulman, M.D., uses video of babies and toddlers to show the communication milestones expected in typically developing children. She also discusses what parents should do if they suspect their child is developmentally delayed.
American Academy of Pediatrics
This website offers health and developmental milestones for different stages, and developmental signs which may need further evaluation.
Centers for Disease Control: Developmental Milestones
This website provides information on developmental milestones for children from 3 months to 5 years of age and offers developmental warning signs for each age group.The site also offers interactive tools for users to specify certain ages, select areas of development, and examine expected changes in milestones overtime.
Colorado age-anchoring resources
These materials, developed by Larimer County (Colorado), provide examples of age-expected development according to the three child outcome areas. They cover child skills and functioning from birth to 36 months.
Illinois Child Development Modules: Understanding Young Children's Development
These narrated modules were developed by training personnel in Illinois based on content developed by the University of Connecticut Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. The modules correspond to child outcome areas and are focused on identifying age-appropriate skills among children zero to three:
- A Focus on Positive Social Emotional Skills
- A Focus on Children's Acquisition and Use of Knowledge and Skills
- Taking Action to Meet Needs
Indiana Standards Tool for Alternate Reporting of Kindergarten Readiness (ISTAR-KR) Performance Level Descriptors
This document was developed by Indiana’s Department of Education to show how observed skills and behaviors addressed by the state’s early childhood assessment relate to the three OSEP child outcomes.
Maryland's Part C Age-Anchored Early Learning Guidelines
Milestones in Action
This is a free image library that features photos and videos of children demonstrating developmental milestones from 2 months to 5 years of age. This tool was created to help parents, early care and education providers, and healthcare providers identify developmental milestones in children and may be used:
- to support information given during trainings
- to support observations and conversations within team about age-appropriate milestones
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
This site provides background information on speech and language development from birth to 5 years. Interactive checklists for different ages are available.
North Dakota DPI Age Expectation Developmental Milestones
This document was developed by North Dakota's Department of Public Instruction and documents age-expected functioning according to the three child outcomes. They also have a three-page milestones quick reference.
Parenting Counts Developmental Timeline
This online resource from Talaris Institute provides research-based information about children's developmental milestones from birth to age 5.
Pathways
An online resource for information and activities related to infant and child development.
University of Connecticut Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
An online training module on social-emotional development in infants and toddlers related to the three OSEP child outcomes.
Zero to Three
Brain development, challenging behaviors, mental health topics, play, social development, temperament, and more. Each section has interactive tools, parent handouts, tip sheets, FAQs, articles, PowerPoint slides, and other resources.