What is the difference between development delay and development disabilities in the united states?

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Developmental disability vs delay There is an excellent website in pdf that clearly lays this out according to federal guidelines: in general, the delays is simply a child developing in some manner later than a similar cohort of other children. The disability starts counting at 5 years old and does not catch up with other children in the areas affected. Sorry I couldnt print it out here but here is the reference: guardianadlitem.Org/.../PDFs/Ch20_Developmental_Disabilites.

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1 Two meanings because they are two very different things. A disability is a permanent thing. It will always get in the way.

A delay is simply that. Catching up is possible, but for whatever reason at the moment, there is a delay. I can give you an example from our family.

Five of my children are adopted. Each one, except the one adopted as a five week old infant, hit a delay of about a year after adoption. There was just too much to cope with for each of them and emotionally they came to a skidding halt until their lives seemed manageable to them again.

Then all but one caught up nicely. The one that didn't had a developmental disability. S mother had given him drugs when he was little, and that had caused brain damage.

He is not retarded -- his IQ is a straight 100. But the brain damage caused a developmental disability on top of the earlier delay. He is completely unable to conceptualize a new idea.

He can work with something technically and learn it and do quite well, but to deal with what he is doing or learning as an actual generalized concept is beyond him. That is a developmental disability.

Two meanings because they are two very different things. A disability is a permanent thing. It will always get in the way.

A delay is simply that. Catching up is possible, but for whatever reason at the moment, there is a delay. I can give you an example from our family.

Five of my children are adopted. Each one, except the one adopted as a five week old infant, hit a delay of about a year after adoption. There was just too much to cope with for each of them and emotionally they came to a skidding halt until their lives seemed manageable to them again.

Then all but one caught up nicely. The one that didn't had a developmental disability. S mother had given him drugs when he was little, and that had caused brain damage.

He is not retarded -- his IQ is a straight 100. But the brain damage caused a developmental disability on top of the earlier delay. He is completely unable to conceptualize a new idea.

He can work with something technically and learn it and do quite well, but to deal with what he is doing or learning as an actual generalized concept is beyond him. That is a developmental disability.

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Im looking for vol 1 and 2 Handbook of Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation by Fred Volkmar - thanks.

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