Area of Dysfunction

Symptoms

Central nervous system impairments

• Below average intelligence
• Delayed milestones
• Motor abnormalities
• Neurobehavioral disorders
• Perceptual problems

Motor abnormalities

• Poor gross motor skills
• Delays in fine motor skills
• Hand tremors

Neurobehavioral disorders

• Hyperactivity
• Poor attention span
• Perceptual problems
• Poor impulse control

Langauge disabilities

• Late onset
• Delayed use of sentences
• Uneven expressive and receptive skills
• Low quality masked by high fluency

Behavioral manifestation

• Social inappropriateness
• Persistent temper tantrums
• Excessive friendliness
• Fearlessness
• Poor response inhibition
• Processing deficits
• Input, output, integration deficits
• Short-term memory loss
• Sensory hypersensitivity
• Perseveration