Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics

Our Services

Developmental Assessments & Follow-Up Care
At UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, our experts in the UCLA Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Program care for children with developmental and behavioral disorders. When you or your pediatrician have a concern that your child may need support for their development, behavior or social communication, we offer comprehensive assessment services, and follow up care. New patients can be referred to our clinic by parents, physicians, therapists or other clinicians.

Our program takes an inter-disciplinary approach to treatment. In addition to developmental-behavioral pediatricians, our team can include a pediatric fellow and a psychologist. We have a strong emphasis on family-centered care. We offer support, training and education to patients and their families. Referrals to community-based resources and services complement other treatments.

Typical referrals to our program: 

• Infants: with motor delays or what seem like global development delay, including concern for cerebral palsy. 
• Toddlers: with motor, language or social delays including suspicion of an autism spectrum disorder or cerebral palsy, or behavioral feeding concerns. 
• Preschoolers (ages 3-6): concern for learning and/or developmental-behavioral difficulties, attentional concerns, global development delay, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and questions about autism spectrum disorders or anxiety, or behavioral feeding concerns. 
• School Age (ages 7-10): concern for learning and/or developmental-behavioral difficulties, attentional concerns, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and questions about autism spectrum disorders or anxiety, or behavioral feeding concerns. 
• Adolescents (ages 11-17): concern for learning and/or developmental-behavioral difficulties, attentional concerns, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and questions about autism spectrum disorder or anxiety.