Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Children with pervasive developmental disorder / PDDs should show the behavior or function on different areas of development. This disorder usually becomes apparent in the first years of life and is often associated with mental retardation. These disorders are generally classified as a form of psychosis in the early editions of DSM. Peculiarities in communication and stereotyped motor behavior. Read more…
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Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
This condition is rather rare described many years before autism (Heller, 1908) but has recently been ‘officially’ recognized. With CDD children develop a condition similar to autism, but only after a relatively long time (usually 2 to 4 years) of clearly normal development (Volkmar, 1994). This condition is clearly different from the pattern of onset of autism, of course, and outcome (Volkmar, 1994). Although seemingly rare condition may be frequently misdiagnosed. Read more…
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Rett’s Disorder
Rett disorder is a pervasive disorder in children. Rett disorder introduced by Andreas Rett in 1965 to explain the development of 22 children of women who experienced normal development for at least six months, followed by the unfavorable development of events with a prevalence of between six and seven per 100,000 girls. Read more…
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Autism
Autism, or austistik disorder, is one of the worst disorder in childhood. Is chronic and lasts a lifetime. Autism comes from the Greek autos meaning “self.” It was first used in 1906 by Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler, to refer to the peculiar style of thinking in people with schizophrenia. Autistic way of thinking is the tendency to see ourselves as the center of the world, believe that external events refer to himself. As if meeka live in their own world, closed to any input from the outside world. Read more…
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