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Mind: Developmental Delay
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Mind: Developmental Delay
The term developmental delay is used when a child is developing skills, such as speech, language and motor skills, more slowly than other children of the same age group. When more than one area of development is delayed, the term Global Development Delay may be used.
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Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
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- Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
- Congenital Rubella
- Congential Muscular Dystrophy
- Dehydratase Deficiency
- Down Syndrome
- Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
- Failure To Thrive
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Galactosemia
- Hypopituitarism in Children Causing Short Stature
- Inherited Copper Deficiency
- Krabbes Disease
- Kwashiorkor
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
- Phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Premature Infant
- Protein Energy Malnutrition
- Spina Bifida
- Tay Sachs Disease
- Trisomy 18
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- Turners Syndrome