Development Delay
In U.S. the preferred term is now development delay among parents and physicians, though it does not represent a single condition. Its is considered more so a disability than it is a disease. It can distinguished in many ways from mental illness. There is no cure for the disability but with appropriate teaching and support they can learn to adapt and learn to do many things and contribute to society.
Disorders & Disabilities
- ADHD
- Agoraphobia
- Angelman Syndrome
- Asperger Syndrome
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Blindness
- Cerebral Palsy
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
- Cluttering
- Conduct Disorder
- Deafblindness
- Deafness
- Depression
- Development Delay
- Developmental Language Learning Impairments
- Down Syndrome
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dysphasia
- Dyspraxia
- Expressive Language Disorder
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Hyperlexia
- Language Delay
- Lisp
- Mitochondrial Disease
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- P.A.N.D.A.S.
- Rett Syndrome
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Integration Dysfunction
- Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Social Anxiety
- Stereotypic Movement Disorder
- Stuttering
- Tourette Syndrome (TS)
- Usher Syndrome
- Williams Syndrome