• Parents of children with developmental delay and behavioral problems face many obstacles to care, including financial challenges, shortages of mental health clinicians, fear of stigma, ...

The moment your baby utters those first magical words is a milestone every parent eagerly awaits. But what happens when those words don’t come on schedule? Or when your toddler’s vocabulary grows at a ...

Parents and grandparents of children ages 2 months to 5 years will notice that their health care providers are using new methods to assess development. Motivated by multiple studies which show that ...

(The Conversation) – Typically, about 1 in 6 children experience a developmental delay. But children born during the pandemic, a 2022 study has found, have nearly twice the risk of developmental ...

As a first-time mom, Stephanie Kaznica remembers wondering why her toddler wasn’t talking yet. She was babbling a bit but not saying complete words. Worried, she brought up the issue with her ...

According to the WHO, one in 127 adults was diagnosed with autism in 2021. Although awareness of developmental delays has ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There were modest declines in developmental scores among children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...

Developmental delays can affect a child’s physical, cognitive, communication, social, emotional, or behavioral skills. Often, delays affect more than one area of development. When a child has delays ...

As a mother of a neurodiverse child, I know well the obstacles and delays that parents may face in seeking diagnoses and treatments for their children. The backlog in receiving a diagnosis and ...