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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Screening tools for developmental language disorder show insufficient sensitivity before age 2, while tools administered at age 2.5 demonstrate acceptable predictive performance. These findings may ...

A new study finds that U.S. pediatricians have plenty of room for improvement when it comes to using a screening questionnaire to flag developmental delays in premature children. A new study finds ...

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 ...

Gross motor delay Significant delay in fine or gross motor skills with no impairment in other developmental areas [9] Developmental language disorders (specific language disorders) Significant delay ...

(Reuters Health) - Although U.S. pediatricians recommend that all babies and toddlers receive screening for developmental problems, a survey of parents suggests that most kids don't get evaluated. Out ...

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, ...