development
These diseases can lead to developmental delay in babies.
Children of different developmental stages could learn with and from each other.
Mercury can cause severe developmental problems in unborn babies and children.
Although in their early developmental stages, these new methods show significant promise.

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developmental | American Dictionary

developmental
adjective
us/dɪˌvel·əpˈmen·təl/
relating to the process of growing or changing into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form:
The theory is in a developmental stage.
The program offers adventures for people with developmental disabilities (= physical or mental conditions that prevent someone from growing and developing in a way that is considered usual) .

Examples of developmental

developmental
Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of developmental psychopathology in context.
In sum, disyllables have the same phonetic and developmental relation to monosyllables that falls have to rises.
But the idea of an ageless self is also supported by developmental psychological theories, where the development after adolescence is seldom considered.
Approximately one-quarter experienced a hearing limitation or a learning, developmental or psychological disability.
This account of the developmental differences is consistent with other studies of children's lexical and phonological representations.
Learners of different language backgrounds are thus predicted to follow different developmental paths.
A critical developmental task of adolescence, therefore, is the construction of multiple selves in different roles and relationships.
In each of these areas of inquiry, the themes of organized complexity, developmental transactions, and the meaning of context are pervasive.
Thus, morphological awareness tended to progress in a clear developmental pattern in relation to spelling of morphemes indicating past tense.
Practitioners are trained to recognize these differences and apply them to developmental interventions.
Finally, the extent of negative consequences of a disorder can vary as a function of normative developmental trajectories.
Although post hoc classification of youth to various developmental trajectories has heuristic value, this method is fraught with problems as well.
However, recently there have been attempts made to devise statistical methods for classifying subjects into groups based on their developmental trajectories.
From this work, a more complex picture emerges about the developmental trajectories of children harmed both early and later in life.
Are the developmental trajectories smooth and continuous, or are there jumps corresponding to timelinked events in the child's life?
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