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Rett's disorder

Symptoms:

  • the child's head growth becomes slowed (deceleration in head circumference)
  • loss of previously acquired hand skills
  • loss of social engagement (the child no longer wants to interact with others)
  • poorly coordinated gait and trunk movements
  • difficulty expressing and understanding language (severely impaired expressive and receptive language development)
  • severe psychomotor retardation

Signs and tests:

Repeated examinations over time shows that the child was developing normally at first, then the development became severely slowed.


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