This is an outstanding 30 page guide from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that has information on preventative care and on good health habits. Use it as a permanent record to help you keep track of your child's health and care through the years. This guide contains many great growth charts, immunization tables and other quick-reference information that can help your child get a healthy start on life. An Early Childhood Growth Chart for families and caregivers which gives age-appropriate activities to promote language development for young children. It is much easier to prevent sleep problems than to treat them later.
Parents look forward to getting a full night of sleep, but newborns awaken every few hours.
This practical and very helpful article will help parents of children from birth to age one cope with many infant sleeping problems. These problems may result from physical handicaps, such as cerebral palsy, cleft palate or hearing loss, or may be related to other problems in the mouth, such as dental problems. However, most articulation problems occur in the absence of any obvious physical disability. The cause of these so-called functional articulation problems may be faulty learning of speech sounds. Early Identification of Speech-Language Delays and Disorders Early identification includes the evaluation and treatment provided to families and their children under 3 years old who have, or are at risk for having, a disability, or delay in speech, language or hearing.