Neurodevelopmental Disorders Flashcards
Difficulties in neurodevelopmental disorders are typically life long problems and often persist through what?
Adulthood
The primary characteristics of this disorder include a pattern of inattention or of hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Attention-deficit or Hyperactivity Disorder
Some people with ADHD display _ hyperactivity. Children with this disorder are often described as fidgety in school, unable to sit still for more than a few minutes.
Motor hyperactivity
Acting apparently without thinking. This characteristic is a common complaint made about people with ADHD.
Impulsivity
What are the 2 categories of symptoms of ADHD?
Problems of inattention
Hyperactivity and Impulsivity
It is characterized by performance that is substantially below what would be expected given the person’s age, intelligence quotient (IQ), score and education. Diagnosis of this disorder requires that the person’s disability not be caused by a sensory difficulty or poor and absent instruction.
Specific Learning Disorder
Specific Learning Disorder would be defined as a discrepancy of _ standard deviations between achievement and IQ.
More than 2
Alternative approach used by many clinicians that involves identifying a child as having a Specific Learning Disorder when the response to a known effective intervention is significantly inferior to the performance by peers.
Response to Intervention
A disorder that affects how one perceives and socializes with others. Its major characteristics include impairments in social communication and social interaction, restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder and childhood disintegrative disorder are combined in DSM 5 under the umbrella term _.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Rett Disorder is a genetic condition that affects mostly _, diagnosed as ASF with the qualifier “associated with Rett syndrome” or “associate with MeCP2” mutation and “not otherwise specified”.
Females
The gene involved in Rett Syndrome.
MeCP2 mutation.
A new disorder to DSM 5 that includes the difficulties in social communication seen in autism Spectrum Disorder but without the restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior.
Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
Certain individuals previously diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified may fall into what category?
Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
Impairments in Autism Spectrum are present in _.
Early childhood
What are the 3 Levels of Severity for Autism and what does it mean?
Level 1- Requiring support
Level 2- Requiring substantial support
Level 3- Requiring very substantial support
Difficulties with social communication and interaction of people with ASD are further defined by the inclusion of 3 aspects, which are?
Problems with social reciprocity
Nonverbal communications
Initiating and maintaining social relationships
What’s the term for someone with ASD, repeating the speech of others?
Echolalia
A disorder evident in childhood as significantly below average intellectual and adaptive functioning. They have difficulties with day to day activities to an extent that reflects both the severity of their cognitive deficits and the type and amount of assistance they receive.
Intellectual Development Disorder
Difficulties of people with Intellectual Disability are shown in 3 domains, which are?
Conceptual
Social
Practical
Previously used term for Intellectual Disability.
Mental retardation
People with more severe forms of intellectual disability may never learn to use _ , requiring alternatives such as sign language or special communication devices.
Speech as a form of communication
Intellectual Disability tends to be more _ and less amenable to _.
Chronic
Treatment
Intellectual disability’s significant subaverage intellectual functioning, with a cut off score set by DSM 5 of approximately_.
70
