The Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Program at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s University Hospital treats children, adolescents, and young adults with learning, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disabilities such as:
- autism spectrum disorders
- attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- language and communication impairments
- learning disabilities
- Tourette Syndrome
- genetic syndromes
- sensory impairments
- fetal alcohol syndrome
The program, headed by, Barbie Zimmerman-Bier M.D., a board-certified developmental pediatrician, is comprised of four clinics: the Developmental Screening Clinic; the Autism Diagnostic Clinic; the Pediatric Specialty Autism Clinic, and the Learning and ADHD Clinic.
Other specialty clinics within The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s collaborate with the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Program to create a multidisciplinary team. These specialties include speech and language; genetics; nutrition, occupational therapy, audiology ; high-risk neonatal follow-up adolescent medicine and family support clinics. Patient families also have access to state-of-the art laboratory, neuroimaging and video monitoring through outpatient and inpatient services.
This multidisciplinary approach provides patients and their families with access to a broad range of professionals and medical disciplines, including pediatric neurologists, sleep specialists, pediatric gastrointestinal doctors, speech-language and occupational therapists, physical therapists, geneticists, child psychologists, and nursing and family support coordinators. The team of professionals is affiliated with the New Jersey Institute for Disabilities in Edison (NJID) , Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied Psychology (GSAP), and Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center.