Resources for Families

In addition to our specialists, The Children's Hospital also provides the following resources for your family:

Children's Family Health Library

The Children's Hospital's main campus location offers a Family Health Library to provide information in broad areas such as parenting, child development, and medical diagnosis in children.  Please feel free to stop by and use this great resource as you would like.

Website Resources

The Children's Hospital suggests these organizations as additional resources for information.

• CDC: Normal Growth Patterns www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhanes/growthcharts/charts.htm
• Keep Kids Healthy: Height Predictor for Children http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/htcalculator.html
• Magic Foundation www.magicfoundation.org
• Human Growth Foundation: Patterns of Growth http://www.hgfound.org/pub_patterns.html
• Little People of America www.lpaonline.org
• American Thyroid Association: Hypothyroidism http://www.thyroid.org/patients/brochures/HypothyroidismFAQ.pdf (.pdf)
• Prader-Willi Syndrome Association www.pwsausa.org
• Turner Syndrome Society www.turner-syndrome-us.org
• Handout: The ABCs of a healthy lifestyle (.pdf)