Sentences with phrase «developmental retardation»

The post-partum period is a high - risk time for the development of thyroid autoimmunity due to Th1 dominance; however, researchers discuss that the risk of developmental retardation and intellectual deficits outweighs the risk of Hashimoto's onset.

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Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews.

If your child is diagnosed with autism, Down Syndrome, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, or other condition of developmental delay, it may be more difficult to train him or her to use a toilet.

Diana Jones Ritter, commissioner of the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, has resigned her post, multiple sources confirm.

A comprehensive statewide network of services through the Office of Persons With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) that enhance, support, protect, and advance the lives of persons with mental retardation / developmental disabilities and the families with whomDevelopmental Disabilities (OPWDD) that enhance, support, protect, and advance the lives of persons with mental retardation / developmental disabilities and the families with whomdevelopmental disabilities and the families with whom they reside.

The city will eliminate funding for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability clinical programs and reduce funding for case management in the Department of Aging, which provide seniors with home care and home delivered meals.

ALBANY, NY (02/24/2010)(readMedia)-- CSEA has won a temporary restraining order, preventing layoffs the state had planned for today at Bernard Fineson Developmental Disabilities Services Office in Queens and other downstate Office of Mental Retardation and Office of Mental Health facilities.

On Saturdays 40 years ago, when Singer (then Alison Tepper) was 5 years old and wanted to be in ballet class, she and her parents would set out on a very different errand: visiting her autistic 7 - year - old brother, Steven, at the Willowbrook State School, an institution on Staten Island, New York, that housed more than 5,000 people diagnosed with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

These mutations have been linked to rare developmental diseases such as achondroplasia, or «dwarfism», and Costello syndrome, a condition that involves skin deformities and mental retardation.

The 2001 SBS textbook cites two studies (from the journals Annals of Emergency Medicine and Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology) showing that between 15 percent and 33 percent of SBS - symptomatic infants died, while one - third to one - half suffered permanent injury such as paralysis or mental retardation.

Mental retardation and other developmental abnormalities are known to be the result of having three rather than two copies of chromosome 21.

Geneticists Christa Martin and David Ledbetter have been probing the relationship between mutations or recombination in the regions of the chromosome adjacent to telomeres and developmental disorders such as autism and mental retardation.

The diagnoses were assigned based on meeting the criteria of DSM III R (Diagnostic Statistical Manuel which is the industry standard for categorizing and evaluating mental illnesses) for Axis I (major mental disorders, developmental disorders and learning disabilities) or Axis II (underlying pervasive or personality conditions, as well as mental retardation) psychiatric disorders.

Professor Nizetic, calling for further research into the components of the disturbed cascade he and his team have revealed said; «We hope that further research might lead to clues for the design of new therapeutic approaches tackling developmental delay, mental retardation, ageing and regeneration of brain cells, and Alzheimer's disease.

These mutations cause a severe developmental disorder characterized by growth retardation, microcephaly and skeletal deformities.

Chronic feeding problems increase a child's risk for poor medical and developmental outcomes, including malnutrition, growth retardation, social deficits and poor academic achievement.

We describe heterozygous ACTB deletions and nonsense and frameshift mutations in 33 individuals with developmental delay, apparent intellectual disability, increased frequency of internal organ malformations (including those of the heart and the renal tract), growth retardation, and a recognizable facial gestalt (interrupted wavy eyebrows, dense eyelashes, wide nose, wide mouth, and a prominent chin) that is distinct from characteristics of individuals with BRWS.

While iodine levels have fallen, there have been simultaneous increases in rates of thyroid disease, breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease, prostate cancer, and obesity in American adults, and an increase in mental retardation and developmental delays in American children.

Studies show that when glycine, an amino acid present in gelatin, isn't properly metabolized, it can result in an increased risk for developmental problems, lethargy, seizures, and mental retardation.

These include mental retardation and developmental abnormalities (8, 10).

Intellectual (or Cognitive) Disability, formerly labeled «mental retardation,» is defined by IDEA as «significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.»

Comment: An agency that provides care to individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities expressed concern that many of their consumers lack capacity to consent to the release of their records and may not have a surrogate readily available to provide consent on their behalf.

Worked at a community day habilitation program with adults with behavioral issues such as mental retardation and developmental disabilities on a daily basis

They include conditions which have been referred to as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, developmental aphasia, etc... they do not include learning problems which are due primarily to visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, to mental retardation, emotional disturbance or to environmental deprivation.»

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You might hear Intellectual Disability being called mental retardation, developmental delay, or severe learning disability.

My Child is dealing with (Select One) Adjustment Disorder Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) Antisocial Personality Disorder Anxiety Disorder Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Autism Spectrum Disorder Behavioral Disorders Bipolar Disorder Borderline Intellectual Functioning Conduct Disorder Depressive Disorder Developmental Disability Enuresis / Encopresis Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD) Gender Identity Disorder Impulse Control Disorder Intermittent Explosive Disorder Major Depression with Psychotic Features Mild Mental Retardation Mood Disorder Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) Personality Disorders Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Psychotic Disorder Reactive Attachment Disorder Schizoaffective Disorder Schizophrenia Seizure Disorder Sexual Behavior - Problematic Sexually Reactive Victim of Abuse (Sexual, Physical, and / or Emotional) Youth Who Have Sexually Reactive Behaviors

Exclusions: developmental disorder or mental retardation, or caregiver with DSM - IV substance abuse or psychiatric disorder.

Low - income infants and toddlers are at greater risk than middle - to high - income infants and toddlers for a variety of poorer outcomes and vulnerabilities, such as later school failure, learning disabilities, behavior problems, mental retardation, developmental delay, and health impairments.

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Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 13 (4), 313 - 320.

MI AND MR / DD SERVICES Services designed to address the needs of people with both psychiatric illness and mental retardation or developmental disabilities.

Special importance is given to disorders that appear in childhood, such as pervasive developmental disorder, attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, mental retardation, mood disorders, depressive and anxiety disorders, drug dependency and delinquency (conduct disorder).

The first tray is from a session with a child with diagnoses of Bipolar Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and Mental Retardation.

[jounal] Howell, A. / 2007 / Setting the stage: Early child and family characteristics as predictors of later loneliness in children with developmental disabilities / American Journal of Mental Retardation 112 (1): 18 ~ 30

Attachment was assessed in toddlers with Autistic Disorder (n = 20), Pervasive Developmental Disorder (n = 14), Mental Retardation (n = 12), Language Development Disorder (n = 16), and a non-clinical comparison group (n = 18), using the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP).

Today the organization provides job training and placement for about 400 adults with Down's syndrome, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities.