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METROPOLITAN ATLANTA DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES PROGRAM (MADDSP)
Description:
To address the problem of developmental disabilities among children, CDC, the former Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, which was funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the Georgia Department of Human Resources, initiated the Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Study (MADDS) in 1984. The success of this study prompted CDC to establish the Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program (MADDSP) in 1991, an ongoing system for monitoring the occurrence of selected developmental disabilities. MADDSP is located at CDC in the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. The two principal objectives of MADDSP are to a) provide regular and systematic monitoring of prevalence rates of selected developmental disabilities according to various demographic characteristics of children and their mothers and b) provide a framework for initiating special studies of children who have the selected developmental disabilities by establishing a population-based case series of such children.
