Developmental Disability Definition

Developmental Disability Sentence Examples

• Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18.

• Autism-A developmental disability that appears early in life, in which normal brain development is disrupted and social and communication skills are retarded, sometimes severely.

• An infant or child up to age five who is not developing new fine motor skills for that age may have a developmental disability.

• Autism is a complex developmental disability with symptoms that typically appear during the first three years of childhood and continue throughout life.

• Due to vast differences in the degree of symptoms present in those affected, this developmental disability is most commonly referred to as autism spectrum disorder, or ASD.