In addition to providing developmental medicine consultations for children referred locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics has always ...

Collaborating over the years with colleagues in genetics, infectious disease, immunology, and the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Meyer Center faculty have participated in numerous research ...

The UAB Division of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP) seeks to provide assessment, intervention, consultation, primary care, and dental services to neurodiverse individuals and their ...

• Parents of children with developmental delay and behavioral problems face many obstacles to care, including financial challenges, shortages of mental health clinicians, fear of stigma, ...

For many years, autism has been identified as a spectrum with differing levels of ability. New research suggests that the age ...

There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

This post was co-authored with Rachel Hardy, M.A. In this three-part series, we seek to explore alternate explanations for childhood defiance/misbehavior. In Part 1, childhood misbehavior was ...

Although the home environment is known to influence behavior problems in children with developmental disabilities (DD), the precise contributions of specific domains remained unquantified, hindering ...

Children with autism typically experience developmental delays, but not every child with a developmental delay has autism. Other factors, such as problems with hearing or vision, can also cause or ...