Results for Developmental Children Services

Task-shifting from health workers to relatives, neighbours: Family Networks for Kids (FaNs) creates a powerful web of new recruits to care for youths with developmental disorders In Pakistan, developmental disorders including intellectual disabilities and autism affect over 7% of children — 4.3 million in total — almost all of them untreated due to discrimination, poor …

Developmental milestones can be important markers of typical child development. Learn about the types of milestones used to track normal development.

Play is a vital part of physical therapy for children with autism, cerebral palsy, or other developmental disabilities. Two moms and bloggers discuss raising kids with different abilities and share toy tips. A PT provides further advice.

Paul Martin shares some of the biggest misconceptions about caring for the disabled. Pa...

Advances in developmental resilience science are highlighted with commentary on implications for pediatric systems that aspire to promote healthy development over the life course. Resilience science is surging along with growing concerns about the consequences of adverse childhood experiences on lifelong development. Resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to adapt successfully to challenges that threaten the function, survival, or future development of the…

SubmittedIf you have a concern your child may have a developmental delay or be in need of special education services, call for a free develo

Healio (4/7, Bortz) reported, “Rural children from small communities exhibited a higher prevalence of mental, behavioral, and developmental disorders than children living in cities and suburbs,” re…

Child's play is sometimes seen as just that: play. But children need to play, as it's their way of learning. Developmental play makes learning fun to do!

We're told to send our kids to school at 5 years of age. But, what if this is wrong? What if delaying school helps protect against developmental disorders?

For 14 years, three men with developmental disabilities have owned their own home, meticulously maintaining it like no one else, and they wouldn't have it any other way.