This article is new tenuous research for a connection between screen exposure and speech delays.

This is a wonderful article looking at light wavelengths from screens and specific strategies to come off of the "high" of screen stimulus.

The goal of the Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) is to promote the adoption and sustained use of evidence-based early literacy learning practices. This site has resources for early childhood intervention practitioners, parents, and other caregivers of children, birth to five years of age, with identified disabilities, developmental delays, and those at-risk for poor outcomes

Early Learning: Talk, Read, and Sing Together Every Day!

Scary anecdotal evidence about addiction to screens

Hanen resource looking at the development of the understanding of gestures and use of gestures to support communication

Westgate draws on the behavioral model, but whether by training or by personality, she is much more laid back. She showed us how to tap on Violet's cheeks with our fingers or a small teething toy and then make our way over to her lips, encouraging her to gum on the toy as long as she could tolerate it.

Baby laptops, baby cellphones, talking farms - these are the whirring, whiz-bang toys of the moment, many of them marketed as tools to encourage babies' language skills. But in the midst of the holiday season, a new study raises questions about whether such electronic playthings make it less likely that babies will engage in the verbal give-and-take with their parents that is so crucial to cognitive development.

Welcome to the Tech for Tikes, created by the Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education (CTE). More than ever, technology to promote learning and development is available everywhere. From tablets, to PCs, to toys, technology that blends education and entertainment now is a staple of the childhood experience. Here's a good source for determining what's appropriate and useful when families ask about apps.

Found this great story about a family who really understands what it means to spark creativity and play with their children. Check it out! "Every year, my wife and I devote the month of November to convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life. It began modestly enough. The kids woke up to discover that the dinosaurs had gotten into a box of cereal and made a mess on the kitchen table."