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.

Screening is a public health service intended to detect specific medical conditions, even in people who believe they are well or who do not perceive that they are at risk for or are affected by a ...

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 ...

Thousands of children will be entering kindergarten this year, and many of them are not ready, according to a study in the Journal of Pediatrics. About 70 percent of children with developmental delays ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi Early Childhood Inclusion Center in Hattiesburg will stage a “developmental screening” event on July 8. The screening is open to newborns to 5 year olds.

Increasingly, computer-assisted learning is becoming an educational method of choice. This study compared the effectiveness of in-class versus Internet-based training in achieving reliability when ...

Young children who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated modest changes in developmental screening scores, according to a cohort study of more than 50,000 U.S. children. Among kids age 5 ...

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