Organisation/Service Details
Organisation or Service
Description of activity
The community paediatric service is a team of doctors who provide assessments for children where there are concerns about their development. We offer assessments to children presenting with developmental delay or impairment, including conditions such as:
- global developmental delay or learning disability
- autistic spectrum disorder
- cerebral palsy
- complex conditions of neurodisability (including syndromes, neuromuscular, neurometabolic and neurogenetic conditions).
Referral Criteria
We see the following children:
• Children up to the age of seven years old, where there is concern about their neuro-developmental progress.
• Older children with conditions of complex disability.
• Older children who present with unexplained learning disability (we will exclude medical causes of learning disability but we are not able to provide detailed cognitive assessments; this would be the remit of an education psychologist).
• Children who require a medical assessment as part of their education, health and care needs assessment.