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.

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Child Development Centerin Missoula offers screenings for kids the first Thursday of every month. This is done through the families first learning lab out of the Missoula Public ...

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 ...

(CNN) --Among toddlers, spending a lot of time staring at screens is linked with poorer performance on developmental screening tests later in childhood, according to a new study. The study, published ...

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 ...

The Greendale Public Health Department is offering Child Development Days to assess the readiness of 3-4 year-olds not in 4K Program, with appointments required for screenings on future dates.

Educational and medical professionals will provide a screening to assess children’s growth and development at Child Find on April 22 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the County Commons in Frisco.The screening ...

Hormones influence a lot in a woman’s body. But, when a woman is missing her period irregularly, is it something to discuss ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — Among toddlers, spending a lot of ...