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This slide presentation presents the practice parameter developed from the guideline, Evaluation of the Child with Global Developmental Delay. The objective of the guideline is to make evidence-based recommendations concerning the evaluation of the child with a non-progressive global developmental delay.

Diagnosis
Evaluation
Screening

This presentation addresses the following clinical questions:

• What is the diagnostic yield of metabolic and genetic investigations in children with global developmental delay?
• What is the role of lead and thyroid screening in children with global developmental delay?
• What is the diagnostic yield of EEG in children with global developmental delay?
• What is the diagnostic yield of neuroimaging in children with global developmental delay?
• Are vision and hearing disorders common in children with global developmental delay?

Children, typically age less than or equal to 5 years

Children

Getting Better
Living with Illness

Effectiveness

American Academy of Neurology - Medical Specialty Society
Child Neurology Society - Medical Specialty Society

• Practice parameter: evaluation of the child with global developmental delay: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and The Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

2003 Feb

This QualityTools summary was completed by ECRI on September 22, 2004.