Busse Library provides these titles and websites for students and faculty seeking information about child and adolescent development. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere. Websites reflect selected topics.
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Gateways to Information -- Websites for Educators -- Organizations -- Government Agencies and Initiatives -- Professional Associations -- Research Groups -- Education Concerns -- Health and Mental Health Concerns -- Busse Library Resources
- Child and Adolescent Development : MentalHelp Net
- Child and Family Webguide - Tufts University
- Child Development Institute
- The Children's Foundation
- The Children's House in Cyberspace : Childwatch International
- Earlychildhood.com : Lifelong Learning Starts Here
- WWW Subject Catalog : University of Kentucky : Child Development -- directory of online resources
- The ECE Web Guide : Early Childhood Education -- resources for childcare professionals
- I Am Your Child
- MacArthur Foundation : Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice
- National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
- National Head Start Association
- National Network for Child Care
- UNICEF: Innocenti Research Center
- USA Child Care -- aids childcare providers
- Zero to Three
Government Agencies and Initiatives
- The ABC of ECD : An Early Child Development Knowledge Base : The World Bank Group
- Child Care Bureau : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- focus on low-income children and their families
- CYFERNet: Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network
- Families and Children: : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
- National Center for Early Development and Learning
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services : Head Start Bureau
- National Association for Family Child Care -- assisting child care organizations
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)
- National Child Care Association -- aids owners/operators of licensed childcare/preschool programs
- The Society for Research in Child Development
- Center for Adolescent Studies : The University of Indiana
- Children, Youth, and Family Consortium : University of Minnesota
- The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center : University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill -- one of the nation's oldest CD study centers
- Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD)
- National Academy for Child Development
- National Black Child Development Institute
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- Schubert Center for Child Development : Case Western Reserve University
- Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood and Elementary Education
- The National AfterSchool Association
- Theory into Practice Database (TIP) -- descriptions and research on learning theories
Health and Mental Health Concerns
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- George Mason University : Online Resources for Developmental Psychology
- National Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse
- Cole, Michael. The development of children / c1993. RJ131. C585 1993
- Colombo, John. Infant cognition : predicting later intellectual / c1993. BF720. C63 C65 1993
- Kostelnick, Marjorie J. Guiding children's social development / c1993. HQ767.9 .G85 1993
- Meadows, Sara. The child as thinker: the development and acquisition / 1993. BF723.5 .C5 M383 1993
- Meisels, Samuel J. New visions for the developmental assessment / [1996]. RJ503.5 .N48 1996 Ref
- Olson, David R. The handbook of education and human development / 1996. LB1115. H313 1996, Ref
- Rosenblith, Judy F. In the beginning : development from conception to age two / c1992. BF719. R67 1992
- Shelov, Steven P. Caring for your baby and young child : birth to age 5 / 1991. RJ61. C329 1991
- Shonkoff, Jack P. Development of infants with disabilities / c1992. HQ773.6 .D48 1992
- Singer, Elly. Child-care and the psychology of development / 1992. HQ778.5 .S56 1992
- Society for Research in Child Development. Child development. / Periodicals.
- Spodek, Bernard. Handbook of research on the education of young children / c1993. LB1119. H25 1993
- Thomas, R. Murray. Comparing theories of child development / c1992. BF721. T456 1991
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