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Understanding Your Child's Diagnosis

Healthy Start is a comprehensive guide for parents and caregivers to support the health and development of their children with intellectual disabilities and developmental delays. In Understanding Your Child's Diagnosis, you will hear from Dr. Mercy Ng'eno, Sr. Clinical Program Manager, Pediatrics with Special Olympics, as she shares an overview of Global Developmental Delay and Intellectual Disability diagnoses and what this means for your child and family's journey.

Information about the diagnosis of developmental delay (DD) and intellectual disability (ID).
  1. DEFINING THE DIAGNOSIS
  2. REACHING THE DIAGNOSIS
  3. PROCESSING THE DIAGNOSIS
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