This document provides information about various developmental, psychological, neurological, and learning disorders. It discusses autism spectrum disorders including autistic disorder and Asperger's syndrome. It also mentions Rett's syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, specific learning disorders involving reading, mathematics, and written expression. Additionally, it summarizes mental retardation, encopresis, enuresis, personality disorders, communication disorders, Tourette's syndrome, chronic motor or vocal tic disorder, transient tic disorder, and tic disorder not otherwise specified. The document aims to provide an overview of the characteristics and diagnostic features of these conditions.

1. THINGS TO REMEMBER 

2. DISORDER
PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL
DISORDER/AUTISM SPECTRUM
DISORDER
AUTISTIC DISORDER
---Impairments of social interaction
---Problem in communication
---restricted and
repetitive patterns of behavior are
quite evident
ASPERGER’S SYNDROME
---exhibit the same signs as those with
an autistic disorder
-- do not show severe impairments in
language development
CAN YOU INVADE MY “OWN WORLD”

3. RETT’S SYNDROME
--Apparently normal prenatal &
perinatal development
--Apparently normal psychomotor
development through the first 5
months after birth
Normal head circumference at birth
---Deceleration of head growth
between ages 5 & 48 months
---Loss of previously acquired
purposeful hand skills
CHILDHOOD DISINTEGRATIVE
DISORDER
PDD-NOS
--Multiple regression in skills after a
relatively prolonged period (at least
2yrs) of normal functioning.
Most typically, acquired skills are lost in
ALL areas.
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4. DISTRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR
DISORDERS & ADHD
ATTENTION DEFICIT
HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
---characterized by
inattention, impulsivity
and hyperactivity.
----Symptoms must be
present before the age of 7.
Must be present in at least
two settings
TYPES:
1. ADHD, Predominantly Inactive
2. ADHD, Predominantly Hyperactive-
Impulsive Type
3. ADHD, Combine Type

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you??
OPPOSIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
The disorder is an enduring pattern
negativistic, disobedient, hostile,
and defiant behavior towards
authority figures
CONDUCT DISORDER
Is an enduring set of behaviors that
evolves over time; usually characterized
by aggression and violation of the right
of others.

6. I just need some “TIME”
LEARNING DISORDERS
READING DISORDER/ DYSLEXIA
--Significant impairment in reading
acquisition that does not have any
demonstrable cause in visual, hearing,
or physical disorders.
MATHEMATICAL
DISORDER/DYSCALCULIA
--- Impairment in the development of
arithmetical or mathematical skills that
is sufficiently serious to interfere with
academic achievement or daily living.

7. DISORDER OF WRITTEN
COMMUNICATION
---The impairment may be exhibited
in a variety of ways, the most
common of which are spelling
errors, grammatical or syntactic
errors, punctuation errors, poor
paragraph organization, and
excessively poor handwriting.
LEARNING DISORDER- NOT
OTHERWISE SPECIFIES

8. MENTAL RETARDATION or should I
say CONDITION
MENTAL RETARDATION "Mental retardation means
significantly sub-average general
intellectual functioning existing
concurrently with deficits in
adaptive behavior and manifested
during the developmental period,
that adversely affects a child's
educational performance.“
--IDEA--
MILD MR
MODERATE MR
SEVERE MR
PROFOUND MR

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ENCOPRESIS
Involves repeatedly having bowel
movements in inappropriate places
after the age when bowel control is
normally expected.
ENURESIS
Involves release of urine into bedding,
clothing, or other inappropriate places.

10. “ I am who I am?”
PERSONALITY DISORDER CLUSTER A- ODD/ECCENTRIC
PARANOID PERSONALITY
DISORDER
--Pervasive distrust and suspiciousness,
sees motives of others as malevolent.
SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
-Pervasive detachment from social
relationships and a restricted range of
emotional expression interpersonally.

11. “ I am who I am?”
PERSONALITY DISORDER
SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY
DISORDER -Little capacity for close relationships
accompanied by cognitive or perceptual
disturbances and eccentricities of
behavior

12. “ I am who I am?”
PERSONALITY DISORDER CLUSTER B- EMOTIONAL/ERRATIC
ANTI SOCIAL PERSONALITY
DISORDER --Pervasive pattern of disregard for and
violation of rights of others since age 15
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY
DISORDER
-Pervasive instability of interpersonal
relationships, self-image and affect with
marked impulsivity by early adulthood.

13. Can we talk?
COMMUNICATION DISORDER SPEECH
PHONOLOGICAL DISORDER --occurs when a child does not develop
the ability to produce some or all
sounds necessary for speech that are
normally used at his or her age.
STUTTERING
-discoordination, or fragmentations of
the forward flow of speech

14. Can we talk?
COMMUNICATION DISORDER LANGUAGE
EXPRESSIVE- LANGUAGE
DISORDER
--Scores obtained from a standardized
individually administered measures of
expressive language development are
substantially below
MIXED RECEPTIVE-EXPRESSIVE LA
LANGUAGE DISORDER
-child communicates using speech and
appears to understand spoken language
at a level that is lower than expected for
the child's general level of intelligence.
-- Problem in comprehension.

15. “TICS”
TICS DISORDERS
TOURETTE SYNDROME
--is an inherited neuropsychiatric
disorder with onset in childhood,
characterized by multiple physical
(motor) tics and at least one vocal
(phonic) tic
CHRONIC MOTOR OR VOCAL TICS
DISORDER
-Is defined as the presence of either
motor tics or vocal tics but not both.

16. “TICS”
TICS DISORDERS
TRANSIENT TIC DISORDER
--presence of single tic or multiple
motor or vocal tics or both.
TIC DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE
SPECIFIED

17. Thank you 
Goodluck 
Just enjoy the side of every hardship 