The US Department of Health and Human Services has proposed "Increasing the proportion of children with mental health problems who receive treatment" as one of its Healthy People 2020 objectives.1 With high rates2 and increasing prevalence of childhood developmental and behavioral(DB) conditions,3"6 promptly identifying and treating these disorders is important so that children's functional outcomes can be maximized. In addition, since long-term treatment of childhood DB conditions is expensive,7"9 intervention in early childhood has the potential to produce large cost savings.
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