Short stature and growth faltering
Height velocity, percentile crossing, mid-parental height, nutrition, chronic symptoms, and puberty are reviewed.
SKIDS Specialty Clinics Specialty care · SKIDS
3rd %ile
WHO standard
Growth percentile cutoff for further evaluation SKIDS · clinic
The reframe
Growth is the body’s long-term report card, but it is often read only when the child looks visibly small.
A single height or weight number says little. The pattern matters: crossing percentiles, poor weight gain, early or delayed puberty, fatigue, chronic inflammation, sleep problems, nutrition gaps, and family height.
Parents need clarity without panic. Some children are constitutionally small. Some need nutrition, sleep, chronic-disease evaluation, endocrine review, or close follow-up.
The SKIDS Growth Clinic keeps the child’s growth curve alive across years so change is seen early and interpreted properly.
Growth is not a number on the wall. It is the child’s story over time.
What we screen for · what we treat
What the SKIDS Growth Clinic brings into view.
Poor weight gain
Appetite, feeding pattern, stool, illness frequency, sleep, and family context are assessed together.
Early or delayed puberty
Puberty timing and growth tempo are reviewed with privacy, sensitivity, and referral criteria.
Obesity and metabolic risk
BMI trajectory, sleep, diet, activity, family history, and emotional context are managed without blame.
Our protocol
The SKIDS Growth Protocol, in four steps.
Diagnostic confirmation
The pediatrician confirms the concern through history, examination, screening results, and the child’s context around height, weight, appetite, sleep, puberty, chronic illness, nutrition, and family pattern.
Severity grading
Findings are separated into reassurance, monitor, treat, and refer pathways so families know what matters now.
Therapeutic plan
The plan may include parent guidance, medication, allied support, school recommendations, tests, or specialist referral depending on the child’s need.
Follow-up schedule
Follow-up is scheduled by risk and response, with the same life record carrying every change forward.
Specialty depth
This is not a one-visit opinion. It is a pediatric care continuum.
Screening plans are generic. Specialty clinic care is individualised after assessment. The SKIDS Growth Clinic shows the breadth of what can be seen, treated, followed, and escalated under one pediatric home.
4 connected concern areas, one child.
The clinic does not treat one isolated symptom. It connects parent observations, school signals, screening findings, examination, and the child’s growth story.
From finding to treatment to follow-up.
Care may include guidance, medicines, devices, therapy, diagnostics, allied support, school advice, or specialist escalation depending on the child’s need.
Ask the SKIDS clinic manager for the right plan.
The clinic manager explains the continued-care options after assessment, including what is included, what needs referral, and how follow-up is tracked in Companion.
Contact clinic managerThe team
2 people care for your child.
SKIDS Pediatrician
Runs the protocol, examines the child, makes clinical decisions, and keeps the concern connected to the whole-child record.
Growth and nutrition coordinator
Tracks anthropometry, diet history, growth charts, investigations, and review cadence with the pediatrician.
What happens, step by step
From screening flag to active care.
A signal is noticed
A parent, teacher, screening day, or clinic visit brings forward height, weight, appetite, sleep, puberty, chronic illness, nutrition, and family pattern.
The pediatrician reviews the pattern
History, examination, screening results, growth, sleep, school context, and family concern are read together.
The child is matched to a continued-care plan
Simple concerns stay in primary pediatric care. Persistent, complex, or red-flag findings are escalated early.
The plan begins
The family leaves with clear next steps, home guidance, prescriptions or referrals where needed, and a record in Companion.
Follow-up protects continuity
Review cadence, reminders, outcomes, and school or allied inputs stay in the same life record.
Why a pediatrician
Why a SKIDS pediatrician with this protocol, not a scattered referral path.
Growth Clinic concerns often begin as ordinary parent or school observations: height, weight, appetite, sleep, puberty, chronic illness, nutrition, and family pattern. A pediatrician is the right first interpreter because the question is not only one organ or one symptom. It is how the child is growing, sleeping, learning, eating, playing, and coping.
SKIDS keeps primary pediatric specialty care close to the child while being clear about escalation. When a specialist is needed, the referral is coordinated with context instead of sending the family away with a fragment.
What the data says
Why this matters.
Parent observations are included in the Growth Clinic pathway, not left outside the visit.
SKIDS whole-child care modelTeacher and school-day signals can be brought into the same pediatric record when relevant.
SKIDS school clinic modelScreening, protocol, follow-up, and escalation stay connected under one pediatric home.
SKIDS protocol libraryDifferent from a fragmented referral.
A one-off visit may name the problem. A SKIDS specialty clinic keeps the child inside a care pathway: what was found, what was started, what changed, when to review, and when escalation is needed.
Different from sending the child away too early.
SKIDS gives pediatricians specialty protocols, documentation, devices, allied coordination, and referral logic so more care can remain close to the trusted pediatric home.
Continue Growth Clinic care with SKIDS.
Specialty clinic care plans are individualised. Contact the SKIDS clinic manager to understand continued care, inclusions, referrals, and follow-up for this clinic.
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