In addition to providing developmental medicine consultations for children referred locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics has always ...

Collaborating over the years with colleagues in genetics, infectious disease, immunology, and the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Meyer Center faculty have participated in numerous research ...

The UAB Division of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) seeks to provide assessment, intervention, consultation, primary care, and dental services to neurodiverse individuals and their ...

• Parents of children with developmental delay and behavioral problems face many obstacles to care, including financial challenges, shortages of mental health clinicians, fear of stigma, ...

There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

This post was co-authored with Rachel Hardy, M.A. In this three-part series, we seek to explore alternate explanations for childhood defiance/misbehavior. In Part 1, childhood misbehavior was ...

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 ...

These pediatricians focus on the treatment of developmental disabilities such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, visual and hearing impairments, autism spectrum disorders, attention ...