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 ...

In this interview, we speak to Dr. Dani Dumitriu about her latest research that investigated the development screening test scores for babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic. I am Dani Dumitriu, MD, ...

According to the advocacy group Autism Speaks, one in every 36 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Early diagnosis is crucial to helping to treat the condition, but how is a diagnosis ...

Developmental monitoring is an active, ongoing process of watching a child grow and encouraging conversations between parents and providers about a child's skills and abilities. Developmental ...

Parents raising children have likely worried at least once, "Could my child be slower than other children the same age?" When a child starts speaking late or walks at a slightly different age, parents ...

An estimated 1 in 6 children has a developmental disability and 1 in 44 eight-year-olds has autism spectrum disorder. 1,2 Evidence-based early interventions can substantially improve developmental ...

Every child in Victoria will be offered free screening for developmental delay under a plan the state government announced last week. But while some media outlets have reported children will be ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers develop the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-human organoids-single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing (CHOOSE) ...

Background With delayed childbearing increasingly prevalent in the Western Pacific, its life-course implications for early ...