"The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child was a landmark essential resource for parents, offering accessible information on child development based on a deep understanding of brain research and psychology. Now that knowledge has been distilled in The Educator's Guide to Understanding Child Development, which is designed to inform educators' practice with a solid grounding in child development"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index. "Portions of this book were previously published in The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development From Birth to Adolescence by Linda C. Mayes, M.D. and Donald J. Cohen, M.D. with John E. Schowalter, M.D. and Richard H. Granger, M.D."--Title page verso.

Understanding child development -- The developing brain and unfolding mind -- How children develop motor skills -- Child's play: child's work -- First words and beyond: how children discover language -- Literacy growth and milestones -- Partnering with families -- A child's inner world of feelings -- Friends: a child's expanding social world -- Children's mental health.