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Young children with global developmental delay are a group at high- risk for later developmental and functional impairments.
Children with global developmental delay are likely to exhibit ongoing delays across domains at school age.
Your child’s primary care physician needs to be mindful of limitations of developmental screening tools.
The cause of developmental delay or intellectual disability is still unknown in many children with these disabilities. More specialized genetic testing is likely to play a role in the future in determining causes.
A careful search by a specialty physician for a cause in children with global developmental delay is indeed worthwhile as the search is quite often successful.
Parent report questionnaires can, in general, be used in the setting of a pediatric clinic to screen for development.
Children with macrocephaly and global developmental delay should have a bone age measured in order to determine if the child has Sotos syndrome.
Health providers should not immediately equate global developmental delay with cognitive impairment.
A single strategy cannot be applied worldwide to diagnose, prevent, and treat intellectual disability and global developmental delay.
Microarray analysis can give a complete and detailed picture of the genome, making other costly tests unnecessary.
The main aim of this study was to determine what factors predict the seizure outcome of children with epilepsy.
The main aim of this study was to determine seizure status of children 2 to 17 years of age diagnosed with epilepsy.