PSY341H1 Lecture Notes - Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Developmental Coordination Disorder
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Mild mental retardation, dsm iv iq below 70 and 55. Moderate mental retardation iq 55-40 severe mental retardation iq 40-20. Divided in to speaking: expressive language disorder (unclear language, poorly pronounced words, unusual words for age, poor grammar), speaking & understanding: mixed receptive expressive disorders, phonological understanding: substituting sounds for others, stuttering. Over a long period of time the psychotic disorders autistic like disorders. Autistic disorder: hallmark symptom is an almost complete lack of social interaction can see right from infancy. Go together because they typically occur comorbid. Add + cd comorbid a lot of the time! Add add with or without hyperactivity: inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity. Conduct disorder: also seems to be a disorder of impulsivity childhood vs. adolescence onset childhood onset is worse news behaving sexually inappropriate, stealing, assaulting, fire starting, unpleasant. Oppositional defiant disorder: severe rejection of all authority conduct disorder light kids that just say no to everything.
