Sharing Web Resources

The organization I chose to research is Zero to Three. The web link is listed below.

http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/

This website is designed to assist parents, caregivers, and educators of young children in their responsibility to help foster a healthy development in young children (specifically 0-3 years of age). It informs individuals of children’s growth and ways to support this growth. This organization has a newsletter and a journal. To be subscribed to the newsletter (From Baby to Big Kid), one should have children and you get it for free. This newsletter will give you information about the stage of development your child is at. The journal (Zero to Three), costs money to receive. This journal talks even more about issues and trends in early childhood. There is also a bountiful amount of resources one can find on this website.

The area that I looked further into was the Behavior and Development section on this webpage. In this section it lists the following issues in early childhood: early childhood development, brain development, challenging behaviors, mental health, early development, health and nutrition, mental health screenings and assessments, play, social emotional development, sleep, and temperament and behavior. All of these issues need to be taken into consideration when caring for infants and toddlers.

The issue that I investigated was brain development. There is an interactive diagram of the human brain. By selecting the infants or toddlers age and then clicking on the different areas of the brain, it gives information about that particular area of the brain and ideas about what parents and caregivers can do to assist in healthy development. This information pertains to prenatal through 36 month old children. It describes language, movement, emotional, cognitive, hearing, and vision abilities, and the list goes on. It even gives frequently asked questions along with the answers to these questions. A podcast is on this section of brain development with an interview with Dr. Gopnik (professor of psychology). She discusses how babies know much more than we all originally thought years ago and what parents and caregivers can do to nurture this brain development. There is plenty of information on this topic. Definitely check this out!