"The physician who understands delayed speech understands child development," said Dr. James Coplan, a neurodevelopmental pediatrician in Rosemont, Pa., who created the Early Language Milestone Scale to measure children's language from birth to age 3. Guidelines by age can be found on the Web site of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Speech-Language-Hearing Speech-Language-Hearing Association
The Cognitive Adaptive Test/Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale (CAT/CLAMS), a neurodevelopmental tool for the cognitive assessment of infants and toddlers, correlates well with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development.
Developmental testing demonstrated delay: on the Cognitive Adaptive Test [ 18], her visual-motor/problem-solving quotient was 33 (mean 100, SD 10); on the Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale [ 18], language quotient was 42 (mean 100, SD 10).
FPR: Forward Parachute Reaction; US: Ultrasound; CA: Corrected Age; CAT-CLAMS: Clinical Adaptive Test/Clinical, Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale; GA: Gestational Age; IVH 1: Germinal layer haemorrhages grade 1; r: Correlation analysis.
As a part of the follow up program, neurological development was systematically followed with a structured neurological assessment, performed at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of corrected age (CA) [ 11], and a neurodevelopmental assessment at 2 years CA including the Touwen's neurological examination [ 7] and the Clinical Adaptive Test/Clinical, Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale (CAT-CLAMS) [ 12].
For startups, at least until recently, the flood of capital has meant more opportunity to prove out product-market fit, hit some milestones and scale the business.
"To build a partnership for climate action with poor countries, the EU must finally move to its promised 30% emissions reductions target, and outline new milestones for scaling up its climate finance".
In addition to the moral argument for including stakeholders in policy decisions that affect them, this group's contributions to milestones in scaling up mental health add to the growing evidence that stakeholder groups are effective partners in strengthening mental health systems in low-resource settings.
I see other business writers and consultants working 70 hours a week, traveling the world and scaling milestones I may never reach, and I wonder whether I made the right decision to step off the fast track.
And it seems that the company has hit a few more scaling milestones recently: According to AppData, there are more than 18 million monthly active users now on the Spotify platform.
