Referring families to the 211 community resource hotline nearly doubled the odds that toddlers would be enrolled in ...

Thousands of children will be entering kindergarten this year, and many of them are not ready, according to a study in the Journal of Pediatrics. About 70 percent of children with developmental delays ...

Purpose. The practitioner must assert what the intended purpose of the questionnaire will be. The purposes might include screening, quantifying, or diagnosing developmental delay, all of which will ...

While only 25 percent of Alabama’s children are appropriately screened for developmental delay, 11 practices from across the state tripled developmental screening to 96 percent and nearly doubled ...

New guidance is spelling out how pediatricians should monitor young children who are at especially high risk for developmental disabilities. In a clinical report published in the July issue of the ...

Taking a first step, waving "bye-bye", and pointing to something interesting are all developmental milestones, or things most children can do by a certain age. Children reach many milestones in how ...

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Editor’s Note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is ...