DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS
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:
- 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.