Sentence examples for pdd from inspiring English sources

She's a fine writer and beautiful singer, thoughtful and sensitive who was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) at age 5, but would now best be described as having mild Asperger's.

Officials say the list of intelligence priorities spelled out in PDD 35, the Clinton-era directive, had not been kept updated, and so once obscure issues like Afghanistan had received little attention.

More quietly, officials say the administration is in the midst of revising broad intelligence priorities laid out in a directive issued by President Bill Clinton, a document known as PDD 35.

The group of ASDs includes three distinct neurobiological disorders: autism (or classic autism), Asperger syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS).

It is usually at this point in the child's development when other features of PDD-NOS become apparent.

Many children who have only several symptoms of an autismlike condition, which prevents a definitive diagnosis of autism, are often diagnosed instead with PDD-NOS.

Classic autism, Asperger syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) are all included within an umbrella of disorders commonly referred to as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).

Today, Asperger syndrome is considered an autism spectrum disorder, a category of conditions that also includes autism (sometimes called classic autism) and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS).

A more appropriate diagnosis was PDD-NOS — pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified — a mild form of autism that presents in such a multiplicity of forms that Hirsch considered it "a technical confession of ignorance," he said.

"It's explicit that anyone who's had an Asperger's or autism or PDD-NOS diagnosis before is now included," said Catherine Lord, a committee member who worked on the new definition and who is director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain in New York.

Somewhere in the middle are children labeled PDD-NOS, short for Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified because they display some, but not all autistic characteristics.