Indian School Psychology Association

Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior

A Brief Discussion on Childhood Disintegrative Disease

Abstract

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Childhood disintegrative complaint (CDD), also known as Heller’s pattern and disintegrative psychosis, is a rare condition characterized by late onset of experimental detainments or severe and unforeseen reversals - in language, social function, and motor chops. Experimenters haven’t been successful in chancing a cause for the complaint. CDD has some similarity to autism and is occasionally considered a low- performing form of it. In May 2013, CDD, along with other sub-types of PDD (Asperger’s pattern, autism, and PDD- NOS), was fused into a single individual term called” autism diapason complaint” under the new DSM- 5 primer.