Purpose
Welcome to CDC's Growth Chart Training. This website offers self-directed, interactive training modules for health care professionals who use pediatric growth charts in clinical and public health settings. Using growth charts can help to assess the growth of infants, children, and adolescents from birth to 20 years.
Training overview
CDC's Growth Chart Training website offers self-directed, interactive training modules for health care professionals who use the pediatric growth charts in clinical and public health settings. This training helps U.S. health care providers learn to use and interpret the growth charts.
CDC recommends that U.S. health care providers in primary care settings use:
- World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards to monitor the growth of children aged birth to 2 years regardless of type of feeding.
- 2000 CDC Growth Charts to monitor growth of children and adolescents 2 to 20 years.
- 2022 CDC Extended Body Mass Index (BMI)-for-Age Growth Charts to monitor growth of children and adolescents 2 to 20 years with a very high BMI (above the 97th percentile for sex and age).
Training modules
There are three modules in CDC's Growth Chart Training. Users can complete any or all training modules in the desired order, at no cost. Each module includes learning objectives, text, and examples. The training (all three modules) takes about 30 minutes to read. The Test Your Knowledge sections take another 10 minutes to complete.
Using the WHO Child Growth Standards
Background information on the recommendation and rationale for using the WHO growth standard charts to assess and interpret growth of infants and children aged birth to 2 years. Includes examples to help interpret growth indicators.
Overview of the CDC Growth Charts
Background information on the 2000 CDC stature-for-age, weight-for-age, and BMI-for-age growth charts. Also includes information on the 2022 CDC Extended BMI-for-Age Growth Charts. Use CDC's growth charts to assess growth of US children and adolescents aged 2 to 20 years.
Using the CDC BMI-for-Age Growth Charts
Background information on how to use the 2000 BMI-for-Age Growth Charts and 2022 CDC Extended BMI-for-Age Growth Charts to plot, assess, and interpret growth among U.S. children and adolescents aged 2 to 20 years, including those with very high BMIs.