Developmental monitoring is an active, ongoing process of watching a child grow and encouraging conversations between parents and providers about a child's skills and abilities. Developmental ...

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 ...

Taking a first step, waving "bye-bye", and pointing to something interesting are all developmental milestones, or things most children can do by a certain age. Children reach many milestones in how ...

Autism screening involves looking at a child’s development to see if their skills are progressing as expected for their age. Differences in their behavior, speech, and movement may be signs a child is ...