Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Children with PDD or autism vary widely in abilities, intelligence, and behaviors. Some children do not speak; others have limited language that often includes repeated phrases or conversations. People with more advanced language skills tend to use a small range of topics and have difficulty with abstract concepts. Repetitive play skills, a limited range of interests, and impaired social skills are generally evident as well. Unusual responses to sensory information are also common. Some or all of the following characteristics may be observed in mild to severe forms: communication problems; difficulty in relating to people, objects, and events; unusual play with toys and other objects; difficulty with changes in routine or familiar surroundings; and repetitive body movements or behavior patterns. The following disorders all fall under PDD: Autistic Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Retts Syndrome, Aspergers Continuum Syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Disorders – Not Otherwise Specified.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Disorders characterized by severe and pervasive impairments in several areas of development such as social skills, communication skills, or sterotyped behaviors, interestes, and activities. PDDs include several disorders including austim and Asperger disorder.
pervasive developmental disorder or pervasive developmental delay (a diagnosis)
Pervasive Developmental Disorder - A disorder of communication, speech, social interaction, and repetitive behaviors. Autism is a kind of PDD. Go Back to Resource Page
Pervasive developmental disorder. Category includes children who behave in egocentric ways, but do not have the language issues or meet the other criteria of Asperger's or autistic disorder. If the disorders were compared to a virus, PDD is milder than Asperger's or autistic disorder which are more virulent.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder. is used as a non-specific, generic term referring to a group of related disorders which share certain essential features: qualitative impairments in both verbal and non-verbal communication, difficulty with reciprocal social interaction and a restricted stereotypic pattern of behaviours. The most well known example of PDD is autism.
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Are neurological disorders and are usually evident by age 3. In general, children with PDD have one of the following problems: difficulty in talking and communicating, unusual repetitive movements, a marked difficulty playing with other children and relating to others, including their family.
Pervasive Developmental Delay. A childhood condition in which there is a delay across all areas of development; speech and language, cognitive, fine and gross motor, social, emotional, and adaptive behaviors.
pervasive developmental disorder. The category of special education services for students with delays or deviance in their social/language/motor and/or cognitive development.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Characterized by severe and pervasive impairment in several areas of development: reciprocal social interaction skills, communication skills, or the presence of stereotyped behavior, interests and activities. The qualitative impairments that define these conditions are distinctively deviant relative to the individuals' developmental level or mental age. These disorders consist of Autistic Disorder, Rett Syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
Pervasive Developmental Disorder. 1. Extreme distortions or delays in the development of social behavior and language. 2. A term used to describe drug exposure to children while in the womb. Results of this exposure can cause extremely short attention spans. Behavior disorders, limited or no processing skills, and/or difficulty understanding spoken words.
Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Although sometimes incorrectly used to mean PDD-NOS or to avoid telling a parent their child has autism, PDD is not an actual diagnosis but a diagnostic category in the DSM-IV refering to a group of disorders characterized by delays in the development of multiple basic functions including socialization and communication. Symptoms may include communication problems such as using and understanding language; difficulty relating to people, objects, and events; unusual play with toys and other objects; difficulty with changes in routine or familiar surroundings, and repetitive body movements or behavior patterns. Pervasive developmental disorders, sometimes referred to as autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), include: Autistic Disorder, Asperger Syndrome (AS), Rett Syndrome (RS), Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD), and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS).
PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS. Disorders characterized by severe and pervasive impairment in several areas of development: reciprocal social interaction skills, communication skills, communication skills, or the presence of stereotyped behaviour, interests and activities. Autism and Asperger's both fall under the category of PDD as does Rett's disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder and PDD - not otherwise specified (NOS).
Pervasive Developmental Disorder. a neurobiological disorder that affects a child’s social, mental, linguistic, and physical development. Examples include autism, Rhett’s disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder as well as motor, speech and language needs. Children with PDD often experience behavioral, emotional, occupational, physical, and other therapies.
Pervasive developmental disorder. A defined category of disability that involves problems in social interaction and verbal and nonverbal communication. PDD includes autism, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett Syndrome, Asperger's syndrome, and PDD-not otherwise specified as diagnostic entities. PDD not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) refers to children who have autistic symptoms but do not formally qualify for that diagnosis.
Pervasive developmental disorder. a neurobiological disorder that affects a child's social, mental, linguistic, and physical development. Examples include autism, Rhett's disorder, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder. Children with PDD often experience behavioral, emotional, and motor problems, and need speech, language, occupational, physical, and other therapies.
Pervasive Development Disorder; "a large group of developmental disabilities which are neurological disorders, usually of unknown cause; types include Retts Syndrome, autism, and Aspergers Syndrome; characterized by severe and pervasive impairment in social interaction skills, communication skills and/or sterotyped behavior, interests, and activities."
pervasive developmental disorders. usually found in the early years of a child's life. Children with PDD have difficulty in areas of development or use of functional skills such as language, communication, social skills, and motor behaviors.