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 ...

Early childhood screening provides an opportunity for children between the ages of 3 years old and 5 years old to participate in a health and developmental screening process. Identifying potential ...

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 ...

It’s recommended that all young children be regularly screened for developmental delays, but new research finds that’s not happening with fewer than 1 in 5 kids in some areas being evaluated.

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 ...