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14 possible causes of 'Developmental delay'
1. Developmental Delay
A developmental delay is any significant lag in a child''s physical, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, or soc...

Symptoms:

  • Developmental delay
2. Mental retardation
Mental retardation is a condition diagnosed before age 18 that includes below-average general intellectual fu...

Symptoms:

  • Teeth grinding
  • Basic learning problem in language
  • Body rocking
  • Disorders of communication
  • Developmental delay
Click to view article 3. Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders involving movement, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking that occur...

Symptoms:

  • Peg-shaped teeth
  • Disorders of communication
  • Writhing movements
  • Unable to write
  • Developmental delay
Click to view article 4. Cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestiv...

Symptoms:

  • Sinusitis, recurrent
  • Coughing up blood
  • General weakness
  • Productive cough-green sputum
  • Developmental delay
5. Down syndrome
Down syndrome is a genetic condition in which a person has 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46.In most cas...

Symptoms:

  • Microcephaly
  • Craniofacial abnormalities
  • Altered growth and development of social skills
  • Delayed growth
  • Developmental delay
Click to view article 6. Muscular dystrophy
Muscular dystrophy is a group of disorders that involve muscle weakness and loss of muscle tissue that get wo...

Symptoms:

  • Gait abnormality
  • Spinal curvature
  • Eyelid drooping
  • Drooling
  • Developmental delay
7. Failure to thrive
Failure to thrive is a description applied to children whose current weight or rate of weight gain is signifi...

Symptoms:

  • Shortness of breath on exertion
  • Pale skin
  • Fatigue
  • Baby's soft spot - sunken
  • Developmental delay
Click to view article 8. Fetal alcohol syndrome
Fetal alcohol syndrome refers to growth, mental, and physical problems that may occur in a baby when a mother...

Symptoms:

  • Short attention span
  • Nose upturned, short
  • Small eyelid openings
  • Skeletal deformity
  • Developmental delay
Click to view article 9. Hookworm
Hookworm is a roundworm infestation affecting the small intestine and lungs. The worms are about 1/2 inch lon...

Symptoms:

  • Nausea
  • Pain
  • Fatigue
  • Vomiting
  • Developmental delay
10. Aase syndrome
Aase syndrome is a rare disorder that involves anemia and certain joint and skeletal deformities.Most cases o...

Symptoms:

  • Tired
  • Deformity of thumb
  • Anemia
  • Developmental delay
  • Absent knuckles
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