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 ...

The statistics on the prevalence of autism sometimes seem like a timer ticking down to zero. When I got into the field of disabilities 13 years ago, the suggested prevalence was 1 in 150 children.

Only about one-third of young U.S. children receive recommended screenings or surveillance designed to catch developmental delays, a new study from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of ...

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics has published thorough guidelines and recommendations for screening for developmental disorders, many clinicians have not incorporated screening into ...

Screening young children for developmental delays, though they seem fine to their parents and pediatrician, does not reduce the chances that they will have learning difficulties and other problems ...

COLUMBIA - The CDC has changed its guidelines for childhood development for the first time in 20 years. Local experts say getting a child properly screened will help parents determine if their kids ...

An estimated 5 to 10% of the pediatric population has a developmental disability. The current strategy to identify these children is through developmental surveillance, a continuous procedure in which ...