Introduction: Over the past two decades, the incidence of cesarean section in most countries has increased.Developmental delay occurs when children do not reach their developmental milestones at the expected time. The main causes of developmental delay are often unknown. Investigation of the prevalence of developmental delay and its effective factors in children from 4 to 12 months old in Pakda...

The use of evidence-based tools is increasing for screening infants and young children for potential developmental delays, and more children with delays are being identified early, when intervention is most effective. But there are significant challenges to following up on screening results, and many children do not receive the services they need. Measures are needed to assess care coordination...

ABSTRACT Developmental biology has grown into a data intensive science with the development of high-throughput imaging and multi-omics approaches. Machine learning is versatile set techniques that can help make sense these large datasets minimal human intervention, through tasks such as image segmentation, super-resolution microscopy cell clustering. In this Spotlight, I introduce key concepts,...

Depression and anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric that negatively affect individuals’ life in many ways. Understanding how these highly comorbid emotional develop persist might guide prevention, intervention, treatment studies. Some common vulnerability factors underlie depression disorders. Developmental psychopathology deals with vulnerabilities risk from a lifetime pe...

Objectives To assess the outcome of a home based psychosocial intervention programme on facilitating development in infants at risk of developmental delay. Method Three groups of infants were involved. Group I comprised infants who suffered from adverse pregnancy and perinatal events and received psychosocial intervention. Group II comprised infants born during the same period with no similar r...

Developmental coordination disorder affects a relatively large proportion (5%-6%) of the childhood population. Severity of the disorder varies but there is a great need for therapeutic intervention. We propose a method for the training of manual actions in children with developmental coordination disorder. Our solution is achieved by applying haptic virtual reality technology to attack the diff...

expected by the international community. This article considers the importance of a developmental perspective as an essential guide to early intervention service systems. Emphasized in this framework are three critical features: relationship formation, the continuity of interventions, and the comprehensiveness of interventions. Guidance to early intervention systems design with respect to struc...

purpose: to evaluate the clinical features, and functional and anatomical outcomes of surgical intervention for pediatric rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (rrd). methods: in this retrospective case series, pediatric patients with rrd who had undergone surgical intervention were included. cases were categorized into five main etiological groups: congenital or developmental (48 eyes), traumatic ...

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an intervention offered to young people presenting with antisocial and aggressive behaviour currently being adapted for use the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) population. This qualitative study aimed provide first consideration of experiences MST therapists supervisors delivering standard suspected or diagnosed Level 1 ASD. Semi-structured interviews were carried ...