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 ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is ...

A conspiracy theory being propagated by right-wing sources claims that the age-specific markers for childhood development — activities like rolling, walking, and a baby’s first words — have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can your year-old child clap when asked to? Does she automatically put her arm through a sleeve while being dressed? These questions are part of a checklist developed by doctors of civic-run Sion ...