Development, Behavior, and Genetics

Center for Development, Behavior and Genetics

The Center for Development, Behavior, and Genetics provides patients with comprehensive, innovative, family-centered health care in a multidisciplinary setting. Our team of caring professionals advocates for and supports patients and their families by promoting independence, respect, effective communication and community collaboration.

The Center provides developmental diagnostic assessments, consultation and intervention services for children, birth through seven years of age, who are "at risk" for or have a developmental disability.

Since opening in 1982, the Center has specialized in providing services for children with complex developmental difficulties, including autism spectrum and related disorders.

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Conditions Treated

• Asperger disorder
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Autism [social, communication, repetitive behavior]
• Birth defects [congenital abnormalities]
• Cerebral palsy [limb deformity]
• Down syndrome [trisomy 21, chromosome abnormality]
• Dual diagnosis [developmental and behavioral conditions]
• Genetic conditions [inherited disease]
• Learning disorders [learning disabilities]
• Mental retardation [developmental delay]
• Metabolic conditions [PKU, maple syrup urine disease]
• Spina bifida

Healthcare Providers

• Nienke P Dosa, MD, MPH
• Robert Roger Lebel, MD
• Mary E MacBlane, MS, PNP
• Joan E Pellegrino, MD
• Louis Pellegrino, MD

Spina Bifida Clinic

The Spina Bifida Center of Central New York provides comprehensive specialty care to children and adolescents with spina bifida. The center is staffed by a pediatrician and professionals in physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, social work, nutrition, and specialty nursing.

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Family Behavior Analysis Clinic

The Family Behavior Analysis Clinic uses the basic principles of learning and behavior analysis to assess and treat behavior problems displayed by children with developmental disabilities. Children appropriate for this clinic are those who are at risk for a change in their living or school placement or whose behaviors put them or their family at serious risk for diminished health.

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Conditions Treated

• Aggression
• Food selectivity/refusal
• Noncompliance
• Property destruction
• Self-injurious behavior [self mutilation]
• Tantrum
• Toileting difficulties

Clinical Services Provided

• Applied behavior analysis
• Behavior modification
• Feeding therapy
• School consultation

Healthcare Providers

• Niamh M Doyle, PhD
• Henry S Roane, PhD

Staff

• Heather Kadey, MS

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