Liane Marie Barretto Ong
AB Psychology 3P
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE NOTES
DISORDER SYMPTOMS SPECIFIER ADDITIONAL NOTES
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Intellectual Disabilities
Intellectual Disability ● Deficits in general mental abilities The taking of the IQ test
(Intellectual Developmental ● Impairment in everyday adaptive (>70) was deemphasized in
Disorder) functioning in comparison to the DSM-5 and focused on how
individual’s age, gender, and impairments of general
socioculturally matched peers mental abilities impact
adaptive functioning in 3
domains: conceptual, social,
and practical.
,Global Developmental Delay ● individual fails to meet expected ● Under the age of 5
developmental milestones in several
areas of intellectual functioning
● Individuals who are unable to undergo
systematic assessments of intellectual
functioning, including children who
are too young to participate in
standardized testing
Unspecified Intellectual ● Who have significant intellectual or ● Used in persons over
Disability (Intellectual general developmental delay or age 5
Development Disorder) disability and who cannot be reliably
assessed
Communication Disorders
Language Disorder Language Disorder is a child’s delay in using ● Symptoms onset is in
spoken and written language which is the early
developmental period
characterized by small vocabulary,
grammatically incorrect and trouble in
comprehension.
_______________________________
, ● A persistent disturbance in the
acquisition and use of spoken language,
written language, or sign language
that is due to deficits in
comprehension or production
○ Reduced vocabulary
○ Limited sentence structure
○ Impairments in discourse
● Language abilities are substantially and
quantifiably below those expected for
age, significantly interfering with
socialization, effective communication,
academic achievement, or occupational
performance
Speech Sound Disorder ● Difficulties in speech production ● This disorder often
● causes limitations in effective coexists with
communication that interfere with language disorder,
social participation intellectual disability,
● Difficulties are not attributable to and neurological
congenital or acquired conditions condition such as
● Child has persistent difficulty in saying landau-kleffner
words or sounds correctly. syndrome
, Childhood-Onset Fluency ● Stuttering
Disorder ● Disturbances in the normal fluency
and time patterning of speech that
are inappropriate for the individual’s
age and language skills
Social (Pragmatic) ● Deficits in using communication for
Communication Disorder social purposes, such as greeting and
sharing information, in a manner that
is appropriate for the social context
● Impairment of the ability to change
communication to match context
● Difficulties following rules for
conversation and storytelling
● Difficulties understanding what is not
explicitly stated
Unspecified Communication
Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder ● persistent deficits in ● With or Major characteristics of
reciprocal social without autism spectrum disorder:
AB Psychology 3P
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE NOTES
DISORDER SYMPTOMS SPECIFIER ADDITIONAL NOTES
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Intellectual Disabilities
Intellectual Disability ● Deficits in general mental abilities The taking of the IQ test
(Intellectual Developmental ● Impairment in everyday adaptive (>70) was deemphasized in
Disorder) functioning in comparison to the DSM-5 and focused on how
individual’s age, gender, and impairments of general
socioculturally matched peers mental abilities impact
adaptive functioning in 3
domains: conceptual, social,
and practical.
,Global Developmental Delay ● individual fails to meet expected ● Under the age of 5
developmental milestones in several
areas of intellectual functioning
● Individuals who are unable to undergo
systematic assessments of intellectual
functioning, including children who
are too young to participate in
standardized testing
Unspecified Intellectual ● Who have significant intellectual or ● Used in persons over
Disability (Intellectual general developmental delay or age 5
Development Disorder) disability and who cannot be reliably
assessed
Communication Disorders
Language Disorder Language Disorder is a child’s delay in using ● Symptoms onset is in
spoken and written language which is the early
developmental period
characterized by small vocabulary,
grammatically incorrect and trouble in
comprehension.
_______________________________
, ● A persistent disturbance in the
acquisition and use of spoken language,
written language, or sign language
that is due to deficits in
comprehension or production
○ Reduced vocabulary
○ Limited sentence structure
○ Impairments in discourse
● Language abilities are substantially and
quantifiably below those expected for
age, significantly interfering with
socialization, effective communication,
academic achievement, or occupational
performance
Speech Sound Disorder ● Difficulties in speech production ● This disorder often
● causes limitations in effective coexists with
communication that interfere with language disorder,
social participation intellectual disability,
● Difficulties are not attributable to and neurological
congenital or acquired conditions condition such as
● Child has persistent difficulty in saying landau-kleffner
words or sounds correctly. syndrome
, Childhood-Onset Fluency ● Stuttering
Disorder ● Disturbances in the normal fluency
and time patterning of speech that
are inappropriate for the individual’s
age and language skills
Social (Pragmatic) ● Deficits in using communication for
Communication Disorder social purposes, such as greeting and
sharing information, in a manner that
is appropriate for the social context
● Impairment of the ability to change
communication to match context
● Difficulties following rules for
conversation and storytelling
● Difficulties understanding what is not
explicitly stated
Unspecified Communication
Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder ● persistent deficits in ● With or Major characteristics of
reciprocal social without autism spectrum disorder:
