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Clinic at the Royal Children's Hospital

Behavioural and developmental paediatrics including developmental delay.

Many children have delays in their development and/or challenging behaviours. Parents may have concerns regarding their child’s communication, social interactions, emotional regulation, learning and/or “executive functions” (eg. organisation, memory, attention). An initial assessment by a developmental paediatrician is a recommended who can arrange referrals to other professionals as needed.

The following practitioners at CPMG can be of service in helping investigate and manage behavioural and developmental concerns in children:

Michaela trained as a Paediatrician at the Royal Children’s and The Mercy Hospitals in Melbourne.

During her training Michaela specialised in developmental and behavioural paediatrics, but since then she has continued to work both acute and outpatient settings, seeing children of all ages, including babies.

Michaela’s areas of interests include developmental delay, speech delay, failure to thrive and growth concerns, Autism, ADHD, constipation, encopresis and enuresis, behavioural problems, anxiety, eczema, asthma and urinary tract infections.