CHAPTER 11 Making Developmental-Behavioral Diagnoses Robert G. Voigt, MD, FAAP Introduction Developmental and behavioral disorders are the most prevalent chronic medical diagnoses encountered by primary pediatric health care professionals.1 Given…
CHAPTER 16 Speech and Language Development and Disorders Michelle M. Macias, MD, FAAP Angela C. LaRosa, MD, MSCR, FAAP Shruti Mittal, MD, FAAP Language acquisition is one of the most…
CHAPTER 27 Billing and Coding for Developmental and Behavioral Problems in Outpatient Primary Care Lynn Mowbray Wegner, MD, FAAP NOTE: All testing procedure codes discussed in this chapter will have…
CHAPTER 19 Autism Spectrum Disorder Scott M. Myers, MD, FAAPThomas D. Challman, MD, FAAP In 1943 Leo Kanner eloquently described 11 children with innate “autistic disturbances of affective contact” characterized…
CHAPTER 14 Motor Development and Disorders Catherine Morgan, PhD Michael E. Msall, MD, FAAP Typical Versus Atypical Development Motor milestones are rapidly achieved in the first year of life with…
CHAPTER 18 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Michael I. Reiff, MD, FAAPMartin T. Stein, MD, FAAP Introduction Overactive children were described in the medical literature over a century ago. In 1902, George Still…
