Developmental, or phenotypic, plasticity has matured from an embellishment to mainstream thinking in evolutionary biology and ecology and is now a fundamental aspect in our understanding of the ...

DD is not synonymous with all forms of arithmetic and mathematical difficulties 1. Here we emphasize that DD is characterized by severe arithmetic difficulties and accounts for only a subset of ...

Department of Pediatric Neurological Rehabilitation, Ganzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China The proactive action taken towards delays in global development is ...

The Developmental Psychology Section promotes the scientific study of the cognitive, emotional, social, perceptual, and biological changes in humans that occur from before birth, through infancy, ...

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder encompassing severe abnormalities in reciprocal social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, accompanied by restricted and repetitive ...

That’s a question parents, pediatricians, educators, and caregivers ask over and over again as children grow and change. To help answer this important question, child development experts have created ...

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 ...

Chille EE 1, Strand E 1, Scucchia F 2,3, Neder M 2,3, Schmidt V 4, Sherman MO 1, Mass T 2,5, Putnam HM 1 1 Department of Biology, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA 2 Department of Marine ...

Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) — now known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — refers to a group of conditions that affect average development. It may appear as a delay in development of ...

Developmental delays can affect a child’s physical, cognitive, communication, social, emotional, or behavioral skills. Often, delays affect more than one area of development. When a child has delays ...