Developmental And
Behavioral Pediatrics

Brenner Children’s pediatricians provide medical and neurodevelopmental evaluations and treatment for children with diagnosed or suspected developmental disabilities. Concentrating on toddlers, preschoolers and young children with dual diagnoses (developmental and behavioral disorders) and complicated Attention Deficit Disorder, Brenner Children’s specialists provide behavioral evaluations and treatment.

Brenner Children’s operates a multidisciplinary developmental evaluation clinic for children up to age five and a regional intensive care nursery program follow-up clinic. Specialists also complete neurodevelopmental evaluations for very low birth weight infants and collect data for the NIH’s Neonatal Follow-Up Network.

A feeding clinic, called KIDS-EAT, provides a multidisciplinary evaluation of oral feeding problems and a comprehensive treatment plan, including follow-up and therapy.

Amos Cottage provides children with special needs a number of outpatient developmental programs that are unique within our region.

Programs include:

• Pediatric Eating, Assessment and Treatment Program (KIDS-EAT) A multispecialty clinic and treatment program for oral feeding disorders.

• Augmentative Communication and Assistive Learning Clinic A multidisciplinary program that offers prescriptive evaluations, treatment and outreach services to children with expressive language impairments who have the ability to communicate and interact with assistive devices.

• Therapeutic Day Program (TDP) A behavioral day program for preschool

children who are unable to maintain placement in mainstream day care or preschool programs due to disruptive behaviors.

• Outpatient occupational therapy For children with fine motor, oral motor, adaptive or sensory deficits.

• Outpatient physical therapy For children with neuromotor disabilities or congenital musculoskeletal anomalies.

• Wheelchair and adaptive seating clinic

• Outpatient speech/language therapy

• Spasticity clinics in collaboration with pediatric neurology and

pediatric orthopaedics.