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To the Editor: Drs. First and Palfrey (Feb. 17 issue)¹ emphasize the importance of assessing language and cognitive skills -- the two developmental areas most predictive of overall outcome and success in school -- but they are in error in stating that parents' worries can usually be responded to with simple reassurance. Much research indicates that parental concern about certain issues is highly predictive of true developmental problems^2,3,4,5,6. Specifically, concern about language, behavioral or emotional status, and cognitive and fine-motor skills has a sensitivity value ranging from 43 percent to 80 percent in identifying children in need of further . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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