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The Young Childhood Program takes a holistic approach to your child from birth through kindergarten age, in a wide range of developmental and behavioral challenges. We take an interdisciplinary approach and include your child’s health information in our developmental assessments, evaluation of social skills, and consideration of environmental conditions. We assess children for delayed language, thinking, social, or motor skills. We evaluate children who may appear to parents or the medical team to be autistic or who have challenges with sleeping, eating, behavior, discipline, or temperament.
The Middle Childhood Program assesses children in elementary and middle school up to age 13. We may evaluate your child’s developmental strengths and weaknesses, learning progress, and social and emotional adjustment in their school, community, and family. Evaluations may require two separate visits. We may ask you to come alone for one visit so that you can express your concerns without your child being present. We evaluate children with weak attention, problems with learning, or intellectual functioning, anxiety, autism, and tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome. Many children have more than one of these issues.
Due to an increasing demand for our services and the need to enhance our care delivery model, we have made the decision to pause acceptance of new referrals for children over the age of 6 years 11 months at the time of referral. This temporary measure will allow us to develop and implement an intake system designed to facilitate more timely and efficient patient care for all children referred to our services.
We understand that this change may create challenges in managing your patients, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Our goal is to improve our processes to ensure that every child receives the best possible support and care, and we believe that this pause is a necessary step in achieving that goal. We will reopen to new referrals in late 2026.
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