Previous analysis of data from 505 preschool children with disordered communication, falling into the a priori categories of Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), Developmental Language Disorder, and Nonautistic Low IQ, showed that PDD is statistically [tandfonline.com]

Treatment for autism spectrum disorders The emphasis falls on early and intense educational interventions. Most treatment is behavior-based and highly structured. [discoverymood.com]

But the term PDD-NOS has become obsolete too as it now falls under autism spectrum disorder. Not surprisingly, there is a considerable amount of confusion around the term PDD. [appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org]

A child who receives a diagnosis of PDD-NOS usually falls into one of the following categories(2): The child is high functioning, like a person with Asperger syndrome (now considered a part of ASD), but is experiencing mild learning issues and/or language [brainbalancecenters.com]

Pervasive Developmental Disorder experience significant impairments in general intellect and overall development, the media has been most interested in the small group of perhaps fifteen to twenty percent of children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders falling [samgoldstein.com]

Playing a radio, stereo, or television at a loud level may appear to produce hyperacusis, a condition in which ordinary sounds produce excessive auditory stimulation of a painful magnitude. [discoverymood.com]

impairment (such that they could not receive the Asperger diagnosis which requires no speech or cognitive delay). • A group (24%) who resembled people with autism but who had a late age of onset, or otherwise did not meet the criteria for autism. • A [occupationaltherapychildren.com.au]

impairment (such that they could not receive the Asperger's diagnosis which requires no speech or cognitive delay). [iancommunity.org]

Tourette's disorder is a common hereditary tic disorder ( 1, 54, 55 ). [ps.psychiatryonline.org]

Disorders With Objective Indicators of Educational Attainment: A Population-Based Sibling Comparison Study. 38 Perez-Vigil A...Mataix-Cols D 29813161 2018 48 Screening Accuracy of the Brief Infant Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment to Identify Autism [malacards.org]

With respect to the PDD-NOS group, the ADHD group had significantly higher rates of co-morbid disruptive behavior disorders, learning disabilities, tic disorders, elimination disorders, and social anxiety disorder. [intechopen.com]

Autism may be accompanied by mental retardation and/or seizures.Rett's disorder involves autistic behavior, dementia, ataxia, severely impaired expressive and receptive language development with severe psychomotor retardation, and loss of previously acquired [healthcentral.com]

[…] years in prison for killing two teens after summer robbery plan turned deadly," 7 June 2019 Brayson had been diagnosed with fragile X syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, impulse control disorder and dysphasia [merriam-webster.com]

And yet, genetics research has advanced at dizzying speed: research of affected families have defined the "broader autism phenotype", stretching autism beyond the individuals with a PDD diagnosis; molecular genetic approaches have isolated susceptibility [scielo.br]