{"id":7522,"date":"2025-12-07T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/?p=7522"},"modified":"2025-12-07T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:10:42","slug":"global-developmental-delay-and-intellectual-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/global-developmental-delay-and-intellectual-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Developmental Delay and Intellectual Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Continuing the section of the DSM for neurocognitive disorders often diagnosed in childhood, a couple short paragraphs this entry:<\/p>\n<p>Within the chapter titled <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelneemft.com\/neurodevelopmental-disorders\/\"><strong><em>Neurodevelopmental Disorders<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, the next two diagnoses are shorter than most and take up where <strong>Intellectual Disability \/ Intellectual Development Disorder<\/strong> leaves off.\u00a0 Again, the differential diagnoses include major and mild neurocognitive disorders, autism spectrum disorder, or a specific learning disorder.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"24\" data-lineheight=\"normal\">Global Developmental Delay<\/h2>\n<p>Global Developmental Delay (Code: 315.8; ICD F88), on page 41 of the DSM 5, is a diagnosis\u00a0 \u201creserved for individuals under the age of 5 years\u201d who are unable to undergo clinical testing, yet fail to meet particular benchmarks in intellectual functioning (DSM p 23, Desk Ref).\u00a0 An assessment will need to be completed in the future to better ensure proper treatment supports for the child specifically and possibly the family more generally.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"24\" data-lineheight=\"normal\">Unspecified Intellectual Disability<\/h2>\n<p>An \u201cUnspecified <strong>Intellectual Disability<\/strong> (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)\u201d (Code: 319; ICD F79) is the category \u201creserved for individuals over the age of 5 years\u201d in situations when the severity of the disability make assessment difficult or impossible.\u00a0 This may include particular behaviors, impairments (blindness or prelingual deafness), locomotor disability, or other co-occurring disorder (p. 23 \/ 41).<\/p>\n<p>Next time, we\u2019ll spend time with communication disorders within this same chapter, which focus on issues \u2013 or \u201cdeficits\u201d \u2013 related to language, speech, and communication (p. 41).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the section of the DSM for neurocognitive disorders often diagnosed in childhood, a couple short paragraphs this entry: Within the chapter titled Neurodevelopmental Disorders, the next two diagnoses are shorter than most and take up where Intellectual Disability \/ Intellectual Development Disorder leaves off.\u00a0 Again, the differential diagnoses include major and mild neurocognitive disorders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7529,"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions\/7529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusivesamplewebsites.com\/michaelneemft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}