Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
Alternate Names : Disintegrative Psychosis, Heller Syndrome, Dementia Infantilis
What are the signs and symptoms of the condition?
As a child with childhood disintegrative disorder has alterations in thinking skills, he or she usually loses communication skills. The child returns to using nonverbal behaviors, or experiences a significant loss of previously acquired skills in some other area. Examples include:
loss of social skills
loss of bowel or bladder control
loss of expressive language, which is the ability to communicate to others
loss of receptive language, which is the ability to understand what others are communicating
loss of motor skills
lack of play
failure to develop peer relationships
impairment in nonverbal behaviors
delay or lack of spoken language
inability to initiate or sustain a conversation
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