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Health and Developmental Monitoring

Every well-child visit is important!

General health monitoring is an integral part of well-child care for all children. Children with special health care needs deserve the same comprehensive health monitoring as their peers without special health care needs. 

The pressures of special health issues management and time available in the practice setting often draw attention away from routine and preventive care.   Sometimes families and CSHCN visit their supspecialty providers to the exclusion than their primary care providers.  Routine preventive health issues, such as immunizations and developmental age-appropriate anticipatory guidance, are at risk of being neglected. 

Well-child visits and health monitoring for CSHCN should include a review of general health and development in concert with management of health issues specific to their condition. In this section, you will find information, resources, and practice tools to help you and your families optimize well-child care, preventive care and developmental monitoring. 

NEWS! The third edition of Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents will be released in late October 2007.

• To read more: http://brightfutures.aap.org/web/pdf/BFNLv5.pdf
• To order guidelines: www.aap.org/bst/showprod.cfm?DID=15&CATID=132&ObjectGroup_ID=812

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Developmental Monitoring

Vision

Hearing

Growth