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Acronyms.

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Ok I keep seeing all different acronyms relating to diagnosis and different types of medical assessments.

Anyone care to start a list?

1)ASD=Austistic Spectrum Disorder.

2)ADHD?

3)ADI-R?

4)ADOS?

I would find it very useful to actually know what they mean. Many thanks.

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  • I am also confused and looking for their meanings.

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    Former Member in reply to California

    Adhd is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder but I don't know the others. Adhd is attentive or inattentive or both. It's about focussing too much or too little on something, problems with "executive functioning " which is basically organising and planning, starting and finishing tasks or not as the case may be, being impulsive. That's a start anyway and lots on the internet about it. Again there are different types and tends to present differently in male /female. 

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  • Former Member
    Former Member in reply to California

    Adhd is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder but I don't know the others. Adhd is attentive or inattentive or both. It's about focussing too much or too little on something, problems with "executive functioning " which is basically organising and planning, starting and finishing tasks or not as the case may be, being impulsive. That's a start anyway and lots on the internet about it. Again there are different types and tends to present differently in male /female. 

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