Warwickshire Children and Young People's Workforce

www.barnardos.ie/userfiles/file/child-development-infopack.pdf     downloadable file

www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/your_kids   read the sections on developmental stages

http://childstudy.net/tutorial.php     lots of facts on different stages of development

Play and Developmental Stages

Birth-18 months

Stages of Social-Emotional development in Children and Young People.

Language Development 0 - 5

Progress should be steady
Children learn at different rates. Some are fast language learners and some are slow, so it is best not to compare one child's language development with another's. The important thing to watch is that language development proceeds steadily, not whether it is fast or slow.

Included in this pack is a session plan for a two hour session and all of the related handouts. It covers early adolescence to the mid to late twenties.

This session has been trialled as part of the Common Induction Standards training in Warwickshire.

Three new studies on early years practice have been published by the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children's and Young People's Services (C4EO).

The three studies are Improving Development outcomes for Children, Improving attainment and Narrowing the Gap.

The three studies are attached as portable document files (.pdf)

The attached report was produced by the Early Childhood Forum in 2008 and discusses the importance of play in children's development.

It is in .pdf format