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ADHD
ADHD is a developmental condition described by persistent patterns of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that begin in childhood and can affect life across settings and adulthood.
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Concepts
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Autism
Autism is a lifelong and heterogeneous neurodevelopmental condition or identity associated with differences in social communication, patterns of behaviour or interests, and sensory experience, with widely varying strengths and support needs.
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Executive function
Executive function is an umbrella for related higher-level processes involved in goal-directed regulation, commonly including updating working memory, shifting between tasks or rules, and inhibiting prepotent responses.
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Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity describes variation in human minds and nervous systems and also names a family of social and political framings about that variation.
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Sensory processing
Sensory processing covers how nervous systems register, discriminate, combine, and respond to information within and across sensory modalities, shaped by both person and environment.