Developmental level and psychopathology: Comparing children with developmental delays to chronological and mental age matched controls

Developmental level and psychopathology: comparing children with developmental delays to chronological and mental age matched controls.

Children with developmental delays (DD) are at heightened risk for developing clinically significant behavioral and emotional difficulties as compared to children with typical development (TD). However, nearly all studies comparing psychopathology in youth with DD employ TD control groups of the same chronological age (CA). It is unclear, then, whether the heightened symptomology found in age-m...

Developmental Delay & ADHD 1 running head: DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY AND ADHD Developmental Delays in Children with ADHD

Discrimination of speech sounds by children with dyslexia: comparisons with chronological age and reading level controls.

Previous studies have shown that children suffering from developmental dyslexia have a deficit in categorical perception of speech sounds. The aim of the current study was to better understand the nature of this categorical perception deficit. In this study, categorical perception skills of children with dyslexia were compared with those of chronological age and reading level controls. Children...

Developmental delays in children with ADHD.

OBJECTIVE ADHD is often comorbid with other disorders, but it is often assumed that academic, language, or motor c skills problems are secondary to ADHD rather than that attention problems are secondary to the other disorder or both disorders have a shared etiology. We assessed for comorbid developmental disorders and which cognitive processes were impaired in children with ADHD. METHOD Measu...

Contemporary characteristics of the developmental age psychopathology.

At present time, it may seem that the available therapeutic possibilities and methods have resulted in lower prevalence, and even disappearance, of certain psychopathological entities. The advancement of therapeutic methods has made possible to tackle new issues that are emerging in developmental psychopathology. These issues are directly related to the specifics of the current social sphere, r...