# Developmental Disorders

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- Published: 2021-09-10T07:31:20+00:00
- Author: alquimedezhemo

Henry Montero, LMHC, CASAC-2, CTTS

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So what exactly are developmental disorders? According to the Kennedy Krieger Institute,
these are chronic deficiencies that mean an individual has an impairment when he
reaches the age of 22. This mental **health concern** is quite likely to last a 
lifetime and mainly affects the person’s functional capabilities. He faces limitations
in several aspects of his daily life.

The early years of a child’s life are dominated by their parents and teachers paying
much closer attention to his activities at home and in school. This is precisely
why developmental disorders are detected mostly when children are still young.

Predominantly, when a child reaches school going age, it becomes more facile to 
scrutinize his behavior and make conclusive decisions before professional help is
required. Of course, in some cases, symptoms may not manifest until the individual
is much older. There are plenty of instances where the individual is an adult, and
then he faces an onset of symptoms.

**Types of Developmental Disorders**

**Autism**
 You may have heard the terminology at some point in your life since 
autism is one of the most commonly occurring developmental deficiencies worldwide.
In earnest, autism begins during childhood like many other **mental health** issues.
It is characterized by impairments in an individual’s ability to interact with others
in a social setting. Therefore, a person who is autistic will have limited vernacular
and be restricted to behaviorally when he engages with others in society.

Autism occurs on a spectrum, which means that it can vary from one person to another.
For example, it may be severe in some cases. This means the autistic individual 
may struggle to complete daily activities and as he grows older that difficulty 
may only augment.

On the other hand, if a person has a less severe form of autism, he may seem entirely
normal, but may face shortcomings in certain aspects of his day to day life.

**Stuttering**
 Stuttering is identified as a disruption in the reasonable fluency
and time patterns of a person’s speech. Generally, this does not align properly 
with the person’s age. At the advent of stuttering, the speaker may not be cognizant
of the fact that there is an issue.

They may use linguistic mechanisms like changing their rate of speech, skipping 
certain situations like using a telephone or conversing in public in a bid to conceal
the issue. Another aspect of stuttering is that it may come with motor movements.
This means that behavior traits like blinking the eyes, jerking of the head and 
clenching the fists may occur contemporaneously.

**Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)**
 DMDD is a chronic and persistent
case where the individual is prone to being extremely irritable. What may be construed
as a temper tantrum of a fit of rage may be a sign of the child having disruptive
mood dysregulation disorder.

If these tantrums transpire with regularity, then parents should speak to the child’s
teachers to corroborate their suspicion before they seek medical attention.