It is a developmental paediatrics practice specialising in the assessment of children with ADHD, ADD, learning difficulties, and associated learning, behavioural, and emotional problems.

The purpose of establishing the SDC was to provide a facility where children with a range of developmental difficulties would be able to receive thorough, multidisciplinary professional diagnostic assessment and management of their disorder.

Both Dr Mark Selikowitz and Dr Rory McCarthy are consultant developmental paediatricians and Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. They are also both members of the Chapter of Community Child Health of the College of Physicians.

Both have been specialist paediatricians for more than twenty years and have extensive experience in their sub-specialty field of developmental paediatrics, with particular interest in the diagnosis and management of ADHD and related conditions.

They are partners and owners of the SDC and have a team of fifteen professional and administrative staff, including psychologists, technicians, and educationists working at the clinic.