Our Practice is fortunate in having a team of professionals to assist when more specialized services are needed. Dr. Hodder is a member of this team of professionals. He has many years of experience working with children and adolescents with a variety of behavioral, developmental, mental health, and neurological issues.

	Barbara Ward-Zimmerman PhD is a licensed Child Psychologist providing a full spectrum of psychological services.  She works in our office seeing children and adolescents in the environment in which they are most comfortable.
	Dr. Taru Parikh, M.D. is a Pediatric Developmentalist who provides consultative services to our patients who have developmental or behavioral concerns.
	Delbert H. Hodder, M.D., F.A.A.P. received his medical degree in 1970 from Loma Linda University and completed his pediatric residency at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Denver in 1973.  From 1976 to 1988, he was the Associate Director of the Waterbury Regional Department of Pediatrics and of the University of Connecticut Primary Care Pediatric Residency Program.  Since 1988 he has been the senior physician at Pediatric Associates.  He has been active in the training of young physicians and is currently an Associate Clinical Professor at the University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics.  He has had a variety of leadership responsibilities at Bristol Hospital where he is a member of the Medical Staff.  Connecticut Magazine has honored him on three occasions as one of Connecticut's "Top Docs".  His special interests are working with children and adolescents with behavioral, mental health, and neurological problems.

Pediatric Associates LLC has introduced a new initiative.

Through this initiative we provide your family with enhanced screening of child behavior and development. The goal of our new screening program is to identify concerns early so that we can offer timely assistance when appropriate. Because our practice has a longstanding history of providing care for the "whole child/adolescent," we have been awarded a grant from The Child Health and Development Institute of CT to assist in our implementation of this enhanced screening initiative.

At your well child/adolescent visit, you will likely be asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding the behavior and development of your child.  You will then hand the completed questionnaire to the nurse when you are brought into the examination room.  The screening tool will then be scored and given to the physician.  When your doctor comes into the room, he/she will discuss the results with you.