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Neurodevelopmental Disorders

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787.x01_Neurodevelopmental_Disorders

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References | Intellectual Developmental Disorders | Intellectual Developmental Disorder (Intellectual Disability) | Global Developmental Delay | Unspecified Intellectual Developmental Disorder (Intellectual Disability) | Communication Disorders | Language Disorder | Speech Sound Disorder | Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering) | Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder | Unspecified Communication Disorder | Autism Spectrum Disorder | Autism Spectrum Disorder | Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder | Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | Other Specified Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | Unspecified Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder | Specific Learning Disorder | Specific Learning Disorder | Motor Disorders | Developmental Coordination Disorder | Stereotypic Movement Disorder | Tic Disorders | Other Specified Tic Disorder | Unspecified Tic Disorder | Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders | Other Specified Neurodevelopmental Disorder | Unspecified Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Excerpt

The neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of conditions with onset in the developmental period. The disorders typically manifest early in development, often before the child enters school, and are characterized by developmental deficits or differences in brain processes that produce impairments of personal, social, academic, or occupational functioning. The range of developmental deficits or differences varies from very specific limitations of learning or control of executive functions to global impairments of social skills or intellectual ability. Once thought to be categorically defined, more recent dimensional approaches to measurement of the symptoms demonstrate a range of severity, often without a very clear boundary with typical development. Diagnosis of a disorder thus requires the presence of both symptoms and impaired function(Thapar et al. 2017).

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