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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Developmental problems. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: to determine if acute or chronic.
Why: e.g. gross motor skills, fine motor function, language and hearing or social skills and understanding.
Why: may detect prenatal infections, prenatal drugs and toxins, birth trauma, neonatal infection as a possible cause of developmental problems.
Why: must make allowance for prematurity i.e. if birth was at 32 weeks gestation, 8 weeks should be subtracted from the chronological age when assessing development, so that milestones would be expected to be reached 2 months later than a baby born at full term.
Why: e.g. any abnormality either structural or functional, identified at any age, but that began before birth such as anencephaly phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, fetal alcohol syndrome, Down syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, hypothyroidism.
Why: e.g. smiling, able to remain in sitting position unsupported, crawled, walked.
Why: assesses expressive language.
Why: assesses receptive language. Receptive language is usually well in advance of expressive language.
Why: the parent is usually the first to suspect a hearing problem.
Why: may also affect development. Determine if home environment is appropriately stimulating to enable good language development and presents opportunities for a wide variety of play experience.
Why: e.g. recurrent ear infections may result in hearing problem and speech delay; prolonged hospitalization may cause transient developmental delay.
Why: e.g. developmental delay, genetic disorders, learning disabilities, stillbirths or deaths in infancy.
Why: may suggest attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Why: e.g. poor eye contact, aloneness, difficulties relating to peers - may suggest autism as cause of developmental delay.
Why: e.g. if not walking by 18 months consider Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The following list of conditions have 'Developmental problems' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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The following list of medical conditions have 'Developmental problems'
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