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Background And Objective: Racial disparities in diagnosis and receipt of services for early childhood developmental delay (DD) are well known but studies have had difficulties distinguishing contributing patient, healthcare system, and physician factors from underlying prevalence. We examine rates of physician diagnoses of DD by preschool and kindergarten entry controlling for a child's objective development via scoring on validated developmental assessment along with other child characteristics.

Methods: We used data from the preschool and kindergarten entry waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort.

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