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Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Caregivers can use "Your Baby's Developmental Milestones" to understand and recognize their child's social, emotional, linguistic, cognitive, and physical milestones in the first 1,000 days.
Monitoring Children’s Development in the Primary Care Services: Moving from a Focus on Child Deficits to Family-Centred Participatory Support: Report of a Virtual Technical Meeting
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Early Childhood Development
This report summarizes a meeting to agree on how best to monitor children 0–3 years of age for risk of developmental delay, disorder, or disability in primary care services.
Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System (EDACS)
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Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The EDACS aims to help speech and language therapists and parents to describe five distinct levels of ability of children with Cerebral Palsy using the key features of safety and efficiency.
Early Childhood DevelopmentGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The CCD Package guides health workers and other counselors as they help families build stronger relationships with their children and solve problems in caring for them at home.
This brief provides information on common impairments, health conditions, and language that should be used when discussing children/people with disabilities.
Including Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action: Nutrition
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Emergency Nutrition
This resource provides practical tips and offers entry points for assuring that nutrition in emergencies takes children with disabilities into account.
Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities
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Early Childhood Development
This digest seeks to demonstrate that the inclusive policies and practices required to promote the rights of children with disabilities are feasible and practical.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination against Children with Disabilities
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Behavior Change for Nutrition
This brief summarizes information gathered for "Communication for Social and Behavioural Change Interventions to Strengthen Disability-Inclusive Programming: A Synthesis of the Evidence."
A Review of Child Focused Multi Sectoral Programming in Africa and Latin America
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Knowledge ManagementAdolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The report discusses successes and failures in implementing multi-sectoral programs, presents lessons learned from collaborating across sectors, identifies knowledge gaps, and articulates a research agenda for multi-sectoral child health approaches.
Experts argue that food labeling, taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, and stronger regulations on marketing products high in fat, sugar, or salt to children are critical to address the rising levels of hunger and malnutrition. Adjusting policies on subsidies could improve food supply quality.