Some children have a condition that causes them to persistently struggle with math problem-solving (developmental dyscalculia ...

Newswise — Over the past 25 years, the number of children diagnosed with developmental and behavioral disorders has risen dramatically. Yet access to specialized care has not kept pace—leaving many ...

Telehealth programs for parents can improve the behavioral problems of children with developmental delay, according to new research. Florida International University (FIU) Psychology Professor Daniel ...

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, ...

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

The vision described in Chapter 1 rests on an understanding of what healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) development is and how the risk and protective factors that influence it can be ...

Trained developmental-behavioral pediatricians can generally diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in young children without the need for additional Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) ...

This service offers assistance to a family or health care provider who has questions about a child’s development or behavior. The program evaluates the child’s skills in a wide range of developmental ...

Objective: Children with Down syndrome (DS) have delayed psychomotor development. We investigated levels of development, problem behavior, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Dutch eightyear ...

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 ...

Maternal care shapes individual differences in fear-associated neural circuitry. In rats, maternal licking and grooming (LG) in early life regulates ventral hippocampal (VH) function and plasticity in ...

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, ...