Childhood Disintegrative Disorder Case Study

Research is continually being conducted everyday with this common disorder. Many parents main concerns is the use of medication to treat their child. Many doctors nowadays show the parents the current research of studies being done and their effectiveness as well as providing papers for families for their willingness to participate in ongoing studies to better help understand their childs disorder and the best way to treat it ( Görtz-dorten, Breuer, Hautmann, Rothenberger, Döpfner, 2011).

To clearly distinguish a child as having FAS poses a difficult thing for researchers. They soon began to realize that they were encountering children with some, but not all the classical signs of FAS. Because a diagnosis of FAS demands the presence of all three hallmarks, (growth deficiency, central nervous system dysfunction, and

Rett syndrome is considered one of the autism spectrum disorders. Rett syndrome is a developmental disability disorder resulting in severe mental and physical deficits in female children. Rett syndrome is grouped as a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) in which conditions are severe and pervasive, and that begin in early life and influence multiple areas of development. Rett syndrome, including the age of onset and the severity of symptoms, varies from child to child. Before the symptoms begin, however, the child generally appears to grow and develop normally, although there are often subtle abnormalities even in early infancy, such as loss of muscle tone (hypotonia), difficulty feeding, and jerkiness in

The autism spectrum is very wide ranging and includes many symptoms. It goes from one or two mild developmental abnormalities all the way up to a person needing a lifetime of care. There are many contributors for autism however, researchers have not found the single cause of autism, and with that, they have not found a cure or accurate prevention methods. It has been found that children who have a sibling with ASD are much more likely to have it, which gives researchers a clue into genetics and how it plays a role in children being born with autism. This paper will discuss the different symptoms of ASD, and what treatments are used to help manage it. A case study will be discussed to show how a child presented with the disorder, and how they were able to live a normal life with the help of various methods of treatment. Genetics will be looked into in terms of siblings and the recurrence rate in families in a scientific study. In another, brain chemistry will be shown in ways that can affect the motor function of those diagnosed with ASD.

Childhood Disintegrative Disorder is a severe condition in which a child will develop normally until age 3 or 4, then rapidly lose already learned skills such as communication skills, motor ability, nonverbal behaviors, and social skills over the course of a few months (Zieve, 2012). Theodore Heller originally described the condition and reported his findings in 1908. It has been only recently that the disorder has been recognized as a clinical condition and was included into the DSM-IV in its 1994 release (Westphal, 2014).

Conducted on Jul 10, 2016, XYZ executed a study on whether or not childhood psychopathology is affected in children of women with eating disorders. Two different age groups were examined; 48,403 children at the age of eighteen months old and 46,156 children at the age of seven years old. If a mother had multiple children, only the first born child was studied. The younger group was measured in cognitive, motor and language development, temperament, and attachment. The older group was given the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to determine where they were psychologically. The mothers had one of the following; anorexia nervosa(AN), bulimia nervosa(BN), both anorexia and bulimia, or no eating disorder(NED). The study concluded that

At one point my parents wanted to know the specifics of his developmental delay, so after going to various doctors and specialists we finally got an answer.

The three behavior disorders that I will be discussing is attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. To grasp a deeper, understanding of a child behavior disorder one must understand the motivation for such disorder whether its biological or environmental. There are several developmental theories that have different prospective that can be useful in understanding Autism, ADHD and ODD. For example, Pavlov, Skinner, Watson all pioneered the Behavior Model; Skinner’s behavior theory believes that children begin to learn by imitating, then people respond to the child's imitation(operant) by reinforcing the behavior (smiling, saying good job), punishing the behavior (saying no, frowning),

Co-instructor for DPT 776: Complex Conditions V. The topics in this course focus on Neurological Disorders in Pediatrics.

This disorder affects 5-6% of school-aged children and is diagnosed more in boys than girls (Cairney, 2010,

The purpose of this paper is to give a comprehensive view to parents and caregivers who may have a child going undiagnosed with characteristics beyond the common parameters. It is also designed to answer the question, “Is SPD a real diagnosis or the latest branding for child behavior development?”

Initially childhood disintegrative diagnoses (CDD) was considered as physical disease.(3) Yet it is a developmental disorder. and it can happens after at least 2 years of normal growth.(1) As proof, early diagnoses of CDD helps in controlling the CDD disorder more efficiently, and help the patients’ parents to know more information about the CDD disorder its symptoms, areas that effected and the diagnoses tests and examinations.

This essay will explain and examine emotional behavioral disabilities in children. It will also explain the many concerns that are related to certain students. Since the passing of many laws, many schools and their district all over the United States have included inclusion as a methods of teaching, because of this, the likelihood of many students in those classrooms will become diagnosed with a EBD which is known as an Emotional Behavioral Disorder.

Caring for patient with developmental disabilities (DD) could be challenging because of the difficulty to have the accurate information that could be presenting during a physical assessment. With issue, that can cause under treatment for these patients because many of health professionals have little exposure to individuals with developmental disabilities and, as a result, are sometimes uncomfortable treating

DCD may coincide with delays in one or more of the following areas: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, and speech production (Gaines & Missiuna, 2007). Gross motor deficits may involve problems with balance, coordination, muscle strength, reaction times, and the ability to distinguish left from right. In addition, recent research suggests an association between CDC and left- or mixed- handedness (Vasconcelos, 2009). Fine motor deficits may be associated with problems using writing implements, problems using scissors, and problems performing a variety of adaptive tasks, such as feeding, dressing, and toileting (Trawick-Smith, 2010). Finally, speech production may pertain to complications during articulation, breathing, and the utilization of grammatical structures (Carlson, 2007).