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NCTRC exammental retardation scoring significantly below average on the standardized IQ test, most commonly used classification is the one used by the American Psychiatric Association - mild, moderate, severe, and profound Autism considered a spectrum disorder because the symptoms and characterizes present themselves in a wide variety of combinations; behaviors - hyperactivity, short attention span, impulsivity or self injurious behavior; may have problems with sensory stimulation, eating, sleeping, and an absence of emotional reaction or excessive fear; may also have a problem with speech, poor eye contact, resistant to change, and sustained odd play Traumatic Brain Injury complications that involve their physical and cognitive abilities; Glasgow Coma Scale and the Rancho Los Amigos Scale Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA) right side CVA affects the left side of the body and vice versa; can cause aphasia (difficulty speaking), understanding, reading, writing, and judgment Dementia Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, dementia with lewy bodies, pick's disease, Parkinson's disease, alcohol-related dementia, and wernicke-korsakoff syndrome; 3 stages Stage 1 or mild dementia Last between a 2-4 years Stage II or moderate dementia Lasts from 2-7 years Stage III or severe dementia Last 1-3 years Epilepsy chronic brain disorder characterized by recurring attacks of abnormal sensory, motor, and psychological activity; a seizure disorder is a common neurological etiology Primary epilepsy occurs with no identifiable etiology secondary epilepsy occurs after an impact to the brain partial epilepsy seizure in only one cerebral hemisphere Generalized epilepsy involves both hemispheres simple epilepsy no loss of consciousness complex epilepsy in which a person loses consciousness cerebral palsy development disorder that is characterized by problems controlling movement; may be classified by limb involvement (quadriplegia, paraplegia, diplegia, emiplegia, triplegia, or monoplegia) or may be classified by exhibited symptoms spasticity, athetosis or ataxia; involuntary motor movement, spasticity, speech disturbance, ataxia (poor balance), stiffness, non-progressive, is not degenerative muscular dystrophy group of related diseases that affect the musculoskeletal systems; Duchene or childhood muscular dystrophy is the most severe and common form and only affects males; progressive disease; facio-scapulo-humeral and limb-girdle affect both male and females