Developmental psychologists focus more on typically developing children (and also less frequently study development across the lifespan). Developmental psychologists are interested in cognitive, social, and language development. One might be interested in how children acquire or use language; their beliefs about concepts and categories; attachment; play; perceptual, verbal or reading abilities and how these change over time.
A clinical developmental psychologist would study or treat atypically developing children (autism, Fragile X syndrome; mental retardation), or those with disorders or psychopathology like adolescent depression, conduct disorders, or ADHD.
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Developmental psychologists focus more on typically developing children (and also less frequently study development across the lifespan). Developmental psychologists are interested in cognitive, social, and language development. One might be interested in how children acquire or use language; their beliefs about concepts and categories; attachment; play; perceptual, verbal or reading abilities and how these change over time.
A clinical developmental psychologist would study or treat atypically developing children (autism, Fragile X syndrome; mental retardation), or those with disorders or psychopathology like adolescent depression, conduct disorders, or ADHD.
Here’s a website with graduate programs in both: http://www.psychology.pitt.edu/graduate/index.php