developmental assessments, therapy, ongoing care, and case management. Children we assess may have a developmental need or concern. They may also have characteristics of: Autism spectrum disorder, ...

That’s a question parents, pediatricians, educators, and caregivers ask over and over again as children grow and change. To help answer this important question, child development experts have created ...

Choosing a child care arrangement for your baby or young child can be an extremely difficult choice for parents (if you are even fortunate enough to have the opportunity to make this choice). Many ...

Child and Adolescent Development is the study of the biological, physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive growth and development of the child from conception through emerging adulthood. Using theory, ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...

As economic hardship deepens, its toll on early childhood development is becoming harder to ignore. Poverty, malnutrition, and limited access to quality education are stunting children’s growth, ...

Developmental screening tools like the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3) help pediatricians and parents understand a child’s growth beyond general milestone charts. These validated tools break ...

Piaget’s stages of development describe how children learn as they grow up. There are four distinct stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Jean Piaget was ...

NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Groups of immigrant mothers from Japan and South America knew less about child development than did their European ...

The pandemic created disruption and family stress that may have lasting effects on young children’s social and emotional development. A Save the Children report released Tuesday found that children in ...