Value of Clinical Examination in Predicting Etiology of Global Developmental Delay

Abstract

The clinical features at initial examination that proved of value in predicting the etiology of global developmental delay (GDD) were analyzed in a retrospective study of 261 unselected young children seen in an academic pediatric neurology practice, 1994-2004, at Montreal Children’s Hospital, Quebec, Canada.

Keywords

• etiology
• global developmental delay
• genetic syndrome/chromosomal abnormality