For the first time in decades, the nation’s top pediatricians have changed the checklist of developmental milestones for infants and young children to make it easier to identify delays that could be a ...

Milestones aren't in place to shame parents into feeling like failures, or to suggest that some kids are behind. They are ...

A recently announced update in the list of childhood development milestones by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has triggered confusion online. The update of the milestones ...

Early childhood is a period of time when kids are developing rapidly in both brain and body. It’s a critical period when the foundations are being laid for the way they learn, develop skills, and ...

Dr. Paul Lipkin specializes in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, where he directs medical outpatient services.

A group of doctors and experts developed a new app called AGAP.AI, which can be used for early detection of developmental ...

CLAIM: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly lowered the milestones for early childhood development in response to the pandemic. THE FACTS: Experts relied on research done prior to ...