Neuropsychological evaluation of clinical forms of delayed mental development: retarded and deprivated types

The contribution proposes a new approach to analysis of the composition of a complex population of children with mental retardation which allows to relate psychological-pedagogical and clinical terminology within the reversible forms of deviations of age-related mental development. It includes multi-axial evaluation of the clinical picture of mental disorders, systematic neuropsychological analysis of the state of higher mental functions (differentiated evaluation of the higher mental functions maturity level and evaluation of intra-group peculiarities of each function’s condition) and comparative analysis of the higher mental functions maturity profiles in different clinical forms of mental retardation. The article distinguishes neuropsychological peculiarities of the higher mental functions system structure of the two clinical forms of mental retardation – retarded and deprivated. It shows the similarity of their psychological structure which confirms the legitimate identification of mental retardation as an independent type of psychological development disorder.

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