• Review mood and anxiety disorders in the pediatric and adolescent population.
• Outline an evidence-based approach to the assessment and management of these mental health issues.
• Demonstrate strategies that are useful in the office management of mood and anxiety disorders in the pediatric setting.

• Define the different disorders of speech/language development.
• Discuss methods of detection that can be effectively employed in the office setting to assess a child with suspected speech/language delay.
• Review the recommended management for children with identified speech/language delay and the role the primary care provider plays as part of the management team.

• Review the techniques used in the appropriate assessment of vision as it develops from infancy through early childhood.
• Discuss the most common childhood vision disorders that can be expected to present in the office setting.
• Determine appropriate thresholds for referral to a pediatric opthalmologist.

• Identify sleep disorders that commonly occur in infancy and childhood and their physiologic causes.
• Discuss appropriate management strategies for parents of children with disordered sleep.
• Detemine those disorders of sleep that may indicate a more serious underlying etiology that may require specialty referral.

3:20 pm - Q & A

3:30 pm - WRAP UP

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• MU School of Medicine

• Department of Child Health

• MU Sinclair School of Nursing

• Children's Hospital

• Mid-Missouri Area Health Education Center

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