Types of Learning Disabilities

Poor Handwriting? Learning Disabilities: Symptoms, Types and Treatment

Learning disability is one of the most common disorders that affect children of young age, causing an inability to understand or use spoken or written language. Even if the learning disability occurs at a younger age, it can only be seen after school age. It involves a weakness in reading, reasoning, writing, organizing, and math.…

Key Differences Between Autism And ADHD

Difficulty in focusing? Is It Autism or ADHD? Or Both?

Introduction Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are two conditions that are similar to each other. Children who have Autism or ADHD can have similar symptoms.  This similarity in symptoms can often lead to misinterpretation of one condition to the other. Children with the conditions can have a hard time focusing. They also will…

Autism and Sensory Issues

Autism and Sensory Issues Autism is a neurological and developmental disorder that primarily hinders a child’s ability to communicate, learn and behave socially. Because of its wide range of symptoms the word “spectrum” has been added to it. Autism may also be associated with other disorders like ADHD, conduct disorder, dyslexia, learning disabilities, and neurosensory…

Conduct Disorder: The Story of Raj

Conduct Disorder – 14 Year Old Raj Fourteen year old Raj, was brought to the clinic by his father. It was noticed that he entered the chambers rather reluctantly and plonked himself on a patient chair, his head bending down and sitting carelessly. His father started narrating about his son’s conduct disorder. Family Background Raj…

Autism Disorder

AUTISM IS NOT A SINGLE DISORDER

Autism is not a single disorder, but a spectrum of closely related disorders with a shared core of symptoms. Every individual on the autism spectrum has problems to some degree with social interaction, empathy, communication, and flexible behavior. But the level of disability and combination of symptoms varies tremendously from person to person. In fact,…

Delay in Speech

A 5 YEAR OLD HYPERACTIVE BOY WITH SPEECH DELAY

A five-year-old boy was brought to Dr A M Reddy Autism Centre with the complaint of hyperactivity, and he is an Autistic child with Speech delay and no social interaction with others. The child was born to consanguineous parents, three years after marriage. Both the parents were healthy. Family history of diabetes mellitus was positive…