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 ...

Children with autism typically experience developmental delays, but not every child with a developmental delay has autism. Other factors, such as problems with hearing or vision, can also cause or ...

What Is a Developmental Delay? A developmental delay is when your child falls behind their peers in one or more areas of emotional, mental, or physical development. If your child's development is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Developmental delays can affect a child’s physical, cognitive, communication, social, emotional, or behavioral skills. Often, delays affect more than one area of development. When a child has delays ...

Rachael Elward does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) — now known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — refers to a group of conditions that affect average development. It may appear as a delay in development of ...

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 ...