Are DCD, Asperger’s syndrome, non-verbal learning disabilities (NLD or NVLD), PDD-NOS, and other terms such as dyspraxia, sensory-integration disorder, the ‘out-of-sync’ child related in any way?
In short, the answer is ‘probably’ — but they are not all the same. There are likely two different explanations for this situation. The first explanation suggests that NLD may actually refer to two (or three) different types of children – each of which originally present as having motor and social difficulties, as well as problems with visual-spatial reasoning. The second explanation reveals that because of certain restrictions in various disciplines, some professionals may be using words and phrases (e.g., dyspraxia, sensory-integration or sensory processing disorder, ‘out of sync’) to describe problematic conditions in young children. In some way, these professionals are doing parents a service, because they are already identifying a ‘difference’ in the child. However, because these clinicians are not officially ‘allowed’ to make a definitive diagnosis from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), some of these terms may be used by occupational
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