Childhood Disabilities & Disorders
- When to Seek Therapy
- Disabilities & Disorders
- ADHD/ADD
- Anxiety Disorders
- Apraxia of Speech, Childhood
- Articulation Disorders
- Asperger's Syndrome
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Birth Injuries
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy
- Clubfoot
- Conduct Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- Elimination disorders (enuresis and encopresis)
- Failure to thrive/feeding disorder
- Fine and Gross Motor Delays
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Fracture
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Gait abnormalities
- Global Developmental Delay
- Hip dysplasia
- Language Delays
- Learning Disabilities
- Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
- Mental Retardation
- Mood Disorders
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Oral Motor Disorders
- Orthopedic conditions
- Osgood-Schlatter Disease
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Pica
- Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood
- Reading Disorders
- Scoliosis
- Selective Mutism
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Tic disorders
- Torticollis (Wry Neck)
- Additional Resources
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders is a general term used to describe a variety of forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety. Anxiety disorders most evident in childhood are described below:
Separation anxiety disorder is a childhood anxiety disorder characterised by a child displaying a significantly higher levels of anxiety than expected when not in the presence of attachment figures.
Panic attacks are experienced as brief and sudden episodes of intense apprehension. Symptoms such as shortness of breath, palpitation, chest pain, and nausea are often present.
Agoraphobia is anxiety related to being in a certain situation where escape might be challenging. Individual who suffer from agoraphobia often engage in much avoidance behaviour which have a significant impact on their ability to functioning socially and otherwise.
Specific phobia is an excessive fear to a specific object or situation such as a place or animal.
Social phobia is a condition in which anxiety is experienced regarding social or performance situations.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterised by reoccurring obsessions or compulsions that interfere with the individual’s functioning.
