Educationally Identified Disabilities

If you are having consistent concerns about your child’s learning or struggles in school, your child’s challenges may be due to a disability. In some cases, a child with persistent problems in school may have an educationally identified disability. Children who try...

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation disorder (DMDD) is an emotional disorder with severe mood and behavioral dysregulation. It includes significant behavioral challenges but is not a behavioral control disorder. Children with DMDD tend to throw fits very often. They may...

Developmental Coordination Disorder

Developmental Coordination Disorder is a Motor Disorder defined by challenges in motor sequencing and coordination. Children may be diagnosed with a Motor Disorder if their impairment in motor functioning interferes with their day-to-day life and their coordinated...

Depression

Major Depressive Disorder is defined by sad or irritable mood or loss of pleasure in things one used to find interesting, accompanied by a number of the following symptoms: inability to focus, thoughts of worthlessness, withdrawal, thoughts of death, poor sleep (too...

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder that includes both depressive symptoms and manic or hypomanic symptoms. Often, these symptoms are not so clearly differentiated in children, meaning you do not see week(s) of depression and then week(s) of manic symptoms. The...

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