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 ...
Childhood is a time of growth, learning, and development. Your child is increasing in height and weight, learning new physical and social skills, and laying the foundations of adulthood. If you have ...
The CDC recently revised its developmental milestone checklists for infants and young children for the first time in nearly 20 years. The revision included adjusting the milestone benchmarks to ...
The number of children with developmental disabilities is on the rise with new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that nearly 1 in 11 kids are diagnosed with autism, ...
Developmental coordination disorder, sometimes referred to as motor clumsiness or developmental dyspraxia, is a movement condition that manifests during child development and is marked by difficulty ...
Trauma therapists inevitably work with children and adults suffering from developmental trauma. The effects of this can be devastating. (See this description by a parent of adopted children suffering ...
Andrew Whitehouse is the Director of CliniKids, which is the community health arm of the Telethon Kids Institute. Children accessing CliniKids may be supported through the NDIS. Andrew receives ...
A delay in reaching language, thinking, social, or motor skills milestones is called developmental delay. It can be caused by things like heredity, pregnancy complications, or premature birth. The ...
If you enjoyed the research process as an undergraduate and have a strong interest in human development—and want to see how research can be applied in real-world settings—then it is time to think ...