Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Indian Scene
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Pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) are characterized by slow, limited and atypical developmental processes with onset in the early years of life. The condition leads on to disabilities in virtually all the psychological and behavioral sectors with prominent disturbances in social, communicative and cognitive spheres. PDDs include the prototypic Childhood autism, Rett’s syndrome, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD), Asperger’s syndrome and Atypical autism. Except for one additional category (hyper kinetic stereotyped movement disorder in ICD-10), the disorders included in ICD 10 (World Health Organization, 1992) and DSM IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) are identical.
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