DSM 5 ASWB EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Correct Answers ✅Conditions that typically manifest in early childhood and are characterized by developmental deficits in the areas of personal, social, academic, or occupational functioning.Neurodevelopment Disorders include the following categories / types - Correct Answers ✅Intellectual Disabilities (formerly classified as Mental Retardation), Communication Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Specific Learning Disorder, and Motor Disorders.Intellectual Disabilities - Correct Answers ✅Mild, moderate, severe, or profound deficits in such functions as reasoning, problem solving, planning , abstract thinking, judgment, academic learning, and learning from experience, with an onset during the developmental period.Global Developmental Delay - Correct Answers ✅Applies to individuals under age 5 who do not meet expected developmental milestones in several areas of intellectual functioning and who cannot be formally assessed with standardized assessments of intellectual functioning.Communication Disorders include the following categories & types - Correct Answers ✅Language Disorder, Speech 1 / 3
DSM 5 ASWB EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Sound Disorder, and Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder, Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering) Communication Disorders - Correct Answers ✅Involve deficits in the development and use of language, speech, and social communication, respectively.Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder (stutering) - Correct Answers ✅Involves difficulties in the normal fluency and motor production of speech.Social Pragmatic Coomunication Disorder - Correct Answers ✅difficulties with communication in social areas such as greetings and sharing information Autism Spectrum Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Consolidation of the previous disorders of autistic disorder, Asperger's disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder involves persistent impairments in social communication and social interaction, as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Indicates a persistent pattern of inattention, disorganization, and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is inconsistent with the individual's developmental level and 2 / 3
DSM 5 ASWB EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) that affects functioning in academic, occupational, or social areas.Specific Learning Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Usually detected by psychological testing, is diagnosed when there is a specific deficit in the individual's ability to perceive and process information. Can include impairments in reading, writing, and/or mathematics (and needs to be so specified) and must either result in academic or occupational performance that is well below average for the individual's age or that requires extraordinary effort on the part of the individual in order to reach age-appropriate levels.Motor Disorders - Correct Answers ✅Developmental Coordination Disorder, Stereotypic Movement Disorder and Tic Disorders Developmental Coordination Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Involves deficits in motor coordination that are not due to another primary diagnosis such as Cerebral Palsy.Stereotypic Movement Disorder - Correct Answers ✅Involves repetitive, seemingly driven, and apparently purposeless motor behavior
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