NOTE: Web sites go off-line now and then. We visited these sites just before we entered them on the list below but can't guarantee that they will still be active when you try them. We believe that most of them will still be active when you try them.

General Internet Connections for Santrock, Life-Span Development, 13th ED.

Aging Resources
http://www.aoa.gov/
The web site of the U.S. government's Administration on Aging with connections to resources in many areas of aging, such as caregiving, intergenerational relationships, leisure, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, retirement.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.aacap.org/
Provides information about child/adolescent problems and disorders. Includes research, recent press releases, and links to other related sites.

American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org
Explores children's pediatric problems. Includes research, family resources, advocacy, and up-to-date descriptions of articles in Pediatrics.

American Educational Research Association (AERA)
http://www.aera.net
This web site of this leading research organization includes information about many areas of educational psychology and children's development. Visitors to the site ca post comments about particular topics. One recent posting had comments from 22 different individuals about "Technology and Homework".

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov
An extensive web site with information about many aspects of health, diseases, and illnesses in infants, children, adolescents, and adults.

Child Development
http://www.srcd.org
The Web site of the Society for Research in Child Development provides information about this excellent journal. How to become a student member of the Society is described.

Children and Advocacy
http://www.4children.org
The web site of the Action for Alliance for Children, which publishes Children's Advocate new magazine. You can read the current and back issues to 1997 at this web site. Web links to information about current trends and policy issues affecting children and families are provided.

Children Now
http://www.childrennow.org
This organization uses research and mass media communication to increase the likelihood that the well-being of children is a top national priority. You can sign up for a monthly newsletter, Children Now, read about action alerts regarding children's well-being, and connect with many other web sites on children's development.

Children's Issues
http://www.childrennow.org/
An excellent web site with extensive links to information about many aspects of child development. Includes links to general resources and resources in specific areas such as education, children's safety, children around the world, federal resources, and others.

Developmental Psychology
http://www.apa.org/journals/dev.html
The web site of the American Psychological Association's main journal that includes research articles on children's development. Links to abstracts of current articles are provided.

ERIC Digests
http://eric.ed.gov/
Current and back descriptions of issues and research in many areas of education can be found at this web site.

Gerontological Society of America
http://www.geron.org
Find out about this very large, prestigious organization that cuts across a number of disciplines-psychology, medicine, sociology, and others. Read about the Society's journals, sections, and annual conventions.

Geropsychology Resources
http://www.drpribut.com/sports/nnaging.html
Extensive connections to websites on such topics as medical aspects of aging, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and clinical psychology. You can also connect through this web site to leading university gerontology centers.

Health Links
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/
Links to an extensive range of journals involving health. Among the child health journals listed are Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and many others.

Internet Resources on Aging
http://www.aarp.org/internetresources/
A wide range of resources on aging that can be obtained on the Internet has been compiled at this web site. Connections to many web sites in the United States and around the world are provided.

Maternal and Child Health Resources
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/
The web site of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration. Has the full text online and a number of articles on maternal and child health, such as Key National Indicators of Child Well Being, Children with Special Needs, School Health Education Resources, and many others.

Medline Health Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html
An excellent web site for finding out information about a wide range of health topics listed from A-Z. Among the topics covered that are especially relevant to life-span development are adolescent health, ADHD, adoption, aging, alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease, and arthritis-and that is just from the A's.

National Aging Information Center
http://www.aoa.gov/
Searchable databases about many aspects of aging are provided, along with information about publications on aging that can be obtained.

National Institute of Child Health Human Development
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
Includes recent news releases, research, and publications (a number of which are on-line at this site). On-line articles include NICHD Study of Early Child Care, Why Children Succeed or Fail at Reading, Investing in Our Future: A National Research Initiative for America's Children for the 21st Century, and many others.

Older Adults' Resources
http://www.aoa.gov/
Connections to resources for improving the lives of older adults can be found at this web site. Includes information about online publications, activities, forums, and more.

Parenting Resources
http://www.feminist.com/resources/links/links_fam.html
Links to many different dimensions of parenting are provided, including positive parenting, single parenting, support services for parents, the National Parent Information Network, and many others.

Pediatrics
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/
This excellent web site allows you to look at current, forthcoming, and back issues of the journal. Pediatrics, which publishes a wide range of articles focused on children's health and well being. Unlike many sites, at this site you can view the abstracts and full articles of current and back issues.

Stand for Children
http://www.stand.org
This national organization encourages individuals to improve the lives of children and provides information about how to get involved with the organization on a local basis.

Zero to Three
http://www.zerotothree.org
This National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Children is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of infants, toddlers, and young children. Includes information about many aspects of development.