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Developmental & Learning Disorders
Aphasia | 39 Members |
| Aphasia is a loss or impairment of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to brain damage. It is usually a result of damage to the language centres of the brain (like Broca's area). These areas are almost always lo... | |
Asperger Syndrome | 1487 Members |
| Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communicati... | |
Autism / Autism Spectrum | 2074 Members |
| Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder which manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. Although the specific etiology of autism... | |
Dyslexia | 344 Members |
| Dyslexia refers to any reading difficulty not associated with obvious problems (such as bad eyesight). Dyslexias include the inability to name letters, to read words or sentences, or to recognize words directly even though they ca... | |
Dyspraxia & Apraxia | 180 Members |
| The Dyspraxia Foundation describes developmental dyspraxia as "an impairment or immaturity of the organisation of movement. It is an immaturity of the way the brain processes information, resulting in messages not being fully tran... | |
Hyperlexia | 11 Members |
| Hyperlexia is a syndrome in which the main characteristics are an above normal ability to read accompanied with a below normal ability to understand spoken language. Hyperlexia appears to be different from what is known as hypergr... | |
Mental Challenged | 96 Members |
| Mental retardation is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity as an adult. One common cri... | |
Rett Syndrome | 14 Members |
| Rett syndrome (Rett syndrome, Rett's disorder) is a progressive neurological disorder. The symptoms of this disorder are easily confused with those of cerebral palsy. The clinical diagnosis specifies a small head and small hands a... | |
Sensory Integration Disorder | 188 Members |
| Sensory Integration Disorder is a neurological disorder causing difficulties with processing information from the five classic senses (vision, auditory, touch, olfaction, and taste), the sense of movement (vestibular), and/or the ... | |
