The New CDC Guidelines and Why the Speech-Language Pathology Community is Concerned
Recently the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated various Speech and Language milestones in their "Learn the Signs, Act Early" program, which is a checklist from ages 2 months to 5 years to help parents and pediatricians identify children with developmental delays and autism. The CDC and AAP’s reasons for the updated "Learn the Signs, Act Early" program were the following: -addition of checklists for ages 15 months and 30 months -addition of social and emotion
