PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Developmental Coordination Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum
28 Sep 2017
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Communication disorders: language disorders, speech sound disorders, childhood-onset fluency disorder, social (pragmatic) communication disorder, unspecified communication disorder. Motor disorders: developmental coordination disorder, stereotypical movement disorder, tourette"s disorder, chronic (pervasive) tic disorder. First described in 1902 by dr. george still, english physician. Now most researched of all childhood disorders. Name changes over the years: 1960s minimal brain dysfunction (mbd, 1970s attention deficit disorder (add); +h or h for presence of hyperactivity, 1980s add plus attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) for those with hyperactivity. Dsm-iv (1994) and dsm-5 use adhd for all cases; three subtypes. General social clumsiness: egocentric; unaware of how others see them, focused on their own personal experiences. Insensitive to convention, social expectations: difficulty reading facial expressions, aggressive tendencies, poor understanding of group dynamics; lack of social judgement, do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake the right (cid:373)o(cid:448)es i(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial setti(cid:374)gs. Incidence: how many new cases in some time period, usually, time period is 1 year, annual incidence, ex.
