{
  "abstract": "Our longstanding approach to ‘developmental disability’ has been to focus, quite reasonably, on the child: promoting early detection of developmental impairments, assessing the issues, formulating diagnoses and recommending interventions. We have always recognised, but have likely just taken for granted, that ‘children’ live in ‘families’. We have expected the adult caregiving members of the family to follow our well-intentioned advice and have often judged them critically when they did not. Based on >30 years of research, this Viewpoint offers a personal perspective that argues for an active expansion of our scope of practice to situate ‘family’ (including siblings) as the essential focus of all our work in child health.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Paediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Peter Rosenbaum"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Viewpoint: childhood developmental disability: recognising the primary role of the family",
  "uid": "7a9b71d2-872d-5ce6-a71e-dd9935b465b8"
}