> Who cares about developmental delays at age 2 and 4, without putting it into context for how kids perform as adults. That's right, here you go: - Children w

> Who cares about developmental delays at age 2 and 4, without putting it into context for how kids perform as adults. That's right, here you go: - Children with developmental delays twenty years later: where are they? How are they? (https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2004)109%3C219:CWDDTY%3E2.0.CO;2 https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2004)109%3C219:CWDDTY%3E2....) - "Findings documented a broad range of outcomes, with some young adults leading independent and productive lives, whereas the majority were un- or underemployed, living with and financially dependent upon their families, and socially isolated." - Developmental Delays in Executive Function from 3 to 5 Years of Age Predict Kindergarten Academic Readiness (https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219415619754 https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219415619754): "Compared to children who exhibited typical trajectories of executive function, the delayed group exhibited substantial impairments in multiple indicators of academic readiness in kindergarten" - Developmental delay in early childhood is associated with visual-constructive skills at school age in a Brazilian cohort (https://doi.org/10.1186/S41155-016-0048-2 https://doi.org/10.1186/S41155-016-0048-2): "Developmentally delayed children showed lower IQs, lower scores, and more errors in copy and memory Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) tasks when compared to typically developed children" - Early Developmental Delays: Neuropsychological Sequelae and Subsequent Diagnoses: (https://doi.org/10.1080/09084282.2011.643963 https://doi.org/10.1080/09084282.2011.643963): "The Delay group had a significantly lower Full-Scale IQ (FSIQ), and when controlling for IQ (analysis of covariance), the Delay group had significantly lower scores on measures of immediate and delayed visual memory skills (CMT)." - Young children with developmental delays as young adults: predicting developmental and personal-social outcomes (https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017%282006%29111%5B263%3AYCWDDA%5D2.0.CO%3B2 https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017%282006%29111%5B263%3AYCWDD...): "Developmental status at 6 to 7 was a strong predictor of developmental status in young adulthood" Feel free to conduct your own research starting from these articles.