... uh, that you're seeing in clinic?

Yeah, um, and this kinda ties into the question of like what we, what we see often.

But, um, we're often doing evaluations for autism or other neurodevelopmental differences, and many times, not always, but, um, many times families will have something in their mind that happened very early on, um, that is kind of standing out to them.

You know, whether the kid fell from a shopping cart, or, uh, maybe at birth, you know, they needed a little bit of resuscitation.

Um, very salient things in their mind that, um, they worry.

Like, "Is this, is this why my child is different?" Or, "Is this what caused a, a differing pathway?" And while we don't necessarily have objective answers of the roles of specific events like that, overall I usually like to relieve parents' anxiety in saying that, "Yeah, that thing probably wasn't related," because we do know a lot now about how genetics kind of sets the blueprint for how the brain is developing, and then the environment can then shape how that kind of goes in the future.

Um, but even genetics isn't answer everything, right? So even kids with a genetic syndrome, for example, can present very differently.

If we have concerns about the environment and the support that parents have in this space of development in response to babies, what, what are the steps that you guys take in your practices in terms of referrals, uh, or, uh, perhaps connecting families to information that they can read, uh, about? How do you guys handle that? Caroline?