Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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• neurocognitive disorder may co-occur with intellectual developmental disorder

• a motor disorder

• co-occur with other disorders

• social-emotional reciprocity

• various levels of severity are defined on the basis of adaptive functioning

• deficits result in impairments of adaptive functioning

• onset in the developmental period

• 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

• very specific limitations of learning or control of executive functions to global impairments of social skills or intellectual ability.

• Diagnosis of a disorder thus requires the presence of both symptoms and impaired function

• neurodevelopmental disorders frequently co-occur with one another

• neurodevelopmental disorders also frequently co-occur with other mental and behavioral disorders with onset in childhood

• the clinical presentation includes behaviors that are more frequent or intense when compared with those of normal children of the same developmental age and gender, as well as deficits and delays in achieving expected milestones

• Intellectual developmental disorder

• individual fails to meet standards of personal independence and social responsibility in one or more aspects of daily life

• Global developmental delay

• when an individual fails to meet expected developmental milestones in several areas of intellectual functioning

• ommunication disorders

• Social communication disorder

• Childhood-onset fluency disorder