We call child development centers the places where parents go with small problems related to a child’s development. A child’s development is not a matter of a single area. There is physical, emotional, social, play, ADLs, language. This is a multidisciplinary aspect of a child’s development. That is why it should be handled by a single professional. A neurotypical child or a normally developing child will have small problems. There is a gap between these. That is what we call goals. Then, in the first assessment, we will understand in which areas our child has problems. Then, in that team, there will be a patient therapist, a speech therapist, a developmental educator, and if the child has behavioral needs, there will be a behavior therapist. There will be a pediatrician, if the child has physical needs, there will be a physiotherapist. They will first see the child and assess the child. After this, after the consultation, we will go to enrollment, that is, for any therapy, there will be a senior consultant, a chief consultant, they will conclude all these reports and guide them. With this goal in mind, each therapist will work in each department every month so that the child’s progress is evaluated every month and the parent will sit with him and see this progress and see the therapy. Ideally, the therapy hours will be reduced by the time the enrollment in school starts, and the schooling hours will be increased and the therapy will end gradually.

You can know the developmental delay of your child by analysing the growth of your child according to their age, such as movements, communication, and social interactions.

The five major stages of child development are newborn (birth to 2 months), Infant (2 to 6 months), Toddler (1 to 3 year), preschooler (3 to 5 year), and school age (6 to 16 year).