ANCHOR GROWKids, Youth & Family SupportTrack whole-child development without turning age into an ability ranking.
Choose the domain that actually changed or needs support.
Development includes communication, cognition, movement, social-emotional development, adaptive skills, sensory access and health. A child can be ahead in one area and need substantial support in another.
Open →Global developmental delay describes significant delay across multiple developmental domains in young children. It does not by itself explain cause or predict one fixed future.
Open →Children born preterm may be followed with corrected age during early development, while health and developmental risks remain individual.
Open →Some children begin spoken language later than peers. Late language can be isolated or part of broader language, hearing, motor or developmental differences.
Open →Developmental language disorder can affect understanding and/or use of language, including vocabulary, grammar, narratives and complex directions.
Open →Speech sound disorders affect how sounds are produced or organized. Intelligibility can change by listener, fatigue and language demand.
Open →Childhood apraxia of speech is a motor-speech disorder involving planning/programming speech movements and requires appropriate professional assessment.
Open →Learning more than one language does not cause a language disorder. Evaluation should consider skills across languages and cultural context.
Open →Use diagrams when the system is easier to understand visually.
Separate communication, learning, body/access and daily-life domains.
Open →Diagnosis and school eligibility answer different questions.
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