Child Development Research Guide

Child Development Specific Conditions from the Center for Disease Control 

CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities has information on certain birth defects, disabilities, mental, emotional, and developmental disorders, and blood disorders that affect children. Click on the following links to learn more:

• Anxiety
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Cerebral Palsy
• Conduct Disorder (CD)
• Depression
• Developmental Disabilities
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Hearing Loss
• Hemophilia
• Intellectual Disability
• Jaundice & Kernicterus
• Language and Speech Disorders
• Learning Disorders
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Spina Bifida
• Tourette Syndrome
• Vision Loss

When searching the web for appropriate sites to use in your research, try adding site:gov or site:edu to your search to limit to websites that end in .gov or .edu. Example: child development site:gov

ChildCare.gov provides links to State or Territory child care websites that parents use to search for child care and consumer education information.

MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine) page on Child Development

California Department of Education - Early Education page

California Department of Education - Resource and Referral County Listing