Families have been faced with important decisions about child care during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to allowing caregivers to participate in the workforce, child care is valuable for children’s social and emotional development. Therefore, caregivers considering child care ...

With child care settings beginning phased reopening in Pennsylvania, we prepared this checklist of questions to help guide parents, guardians and families in these conversations.   The questions presented in this document are generated by experts in pediatric primary care, infectio...

Despite efforts to reduce the age of diagnosis for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and ameliorate disparities in the identification of children with ASD from diverse backgrounds, we have only recently begun to move the needle. We acknowledge the formidable task pediatricians face in...

With schools closed and families social distancing, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the lives of children across the country. For youth with disabilities and special health care needs and their caregivers, the challenges brought about by the pandemic have been even ...

With child care settings beginning phased reopening in Pennsylvania, we prepared this frequently asked questions document to support center operators and other related professionals in their planning. The challenge child care providers face is how to carry out the main principles o...

With schools in the U.S. considering strategies to safely reopen following their closure for the COVID-19 pandemic, our experts, alongside colleagues within Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Division of Infectious Diseases, prepared a policy review compiling emerging evidence a...

The purpose of the study was to quantify changes in sleep during the middle-to-high school transition and determine if changes in sleep differ by sociodemographic characteristics. Adolescents were enrolled in eighth grade and followed into ninth grade (N = 110; 2,470 nights observe...

Adolescent and young adult health-care providers often care for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth-youth whose gender identity is incongruent with the gender assigned to them at birth. This patient population faces health challenges distinct from their cisgender peers (i.e....

PURPOSE: To describe the first 30 days of rapid adolescent telehealth scale-up in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at a single academic medical center and assess for disparities in visit completion rates by patient characteristics. METHODS: Visit outcome and patient ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of the Behavioral Health Checklist (BHCL) strength-based factor scores and the extent to which this factor has a buffering effect on the relationship between behavioral health symptom severity and children's social problems. METHOD: The parents o...