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Despite evidence that early identification of and intervention for developmental delay improves children's outcomes, fewer than half of young children receive practice-based developmental screening. Practices may lack time, training, or personnel to help connect families to appropriate services.
To address these barriers, one urban U.S. county began providing childhood developmental screening and care coordination for eligible callers to 2-1-1, the national telephone service that connects families to local health and human services. In that county's 2-1-1 call center, a care coordinator was hired to conduct standardized developmental screening by phone; provide results to parents; connect families to services such as Early Intervention (EI),…