learning disabilities.

They had profound intellectual disabilities.

Some have arm or leg disabilities.

These children are quickly labeled as having disabilities and transferred to another institution for children with disabilities.

Knowledge, therefore, emerges from developmental experience.

Paul Bloom PhD, Cognitive and Developmental Psychology

December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

The first one is education, especially for kids with disabilities.

Most public places are simply not geared to people with disabilities.

From all those developmental interactions that I've showed you before.

One is called RELN it's involved in early developmental cues.

Well, autism is the most strongly genetic condition of all developmental disorders.

It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

In the last 20 years, developmental science has completely overturned that picture.

I'm compiling a developmental profile. She needs more stimulation than that room.

Let's resist the temptation to classify other people based on their disabilities or their challenges.

And evolution, therefore, prepared us for this journey with a developmental openness to experience.

And that therefore means that knowlegde is really something that emerges from those developmental interactions.

That made Alex's 20s a developmental sweet spot, and we were sitting there, blowing it.

The Paralympics, just for a little bit of clarification, are the Olympics for people with physical disabilities amputees, persons with cerebral palsy, and wheelchair athletes as opposed to the Special Olympics, which deals with people with mental disabilities.

They just require an extra hormone given at the right developmental stage to make them male.

We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

Now I discussed this with Professor Simon Baron Cohen who's the professor of developmental psychopathology at Cambridge.

For those without disabilities, at age three, they're transferred to another institution, and at age seven, to yet another.

And what's so interesting about this is that sometimes, this developmental process can lead to truly remarkable results.

Yes, people settle down later than they used to, but that didn't make Alex's 20s a developmental downtime.

This is different from a lot of the developmental work that had been done up to that point.

It is estimated that one in six children, that's one in six children, suffer from some developmental disorder.

And Baron Cohen explained that certain disabilities can manifest themselves in the hacking and computing world as tremendous skills, and that we should not be throwing in jail people who have such disabilities and skills because they have lost their way socially or been duped.

And these chemicals are easily absorbed through amphibians' permeable skin, causing immunosuppression, or a weakened immune system, and developmental deformities.

When you're three, you better be able to write your name legibly, or else we'll consider it a developmental delay.

They said even if she did survive, her disabilities would be so severe that Bella would not have a life worth living.

It's a long term state hospital, where several years ago we started working with Hyperscore and patients with physical and mental disabilities.

Actually, I think it's a great way to teach kids about evolutionary biology and developmental biology and all sorts of things.

What we are breaking now, is into developmental evolutionary biology, and we are attempting in our lab to retro engineer a

So our hope is to eventually build brain coprocessors that work with the brain so we can augment functions in people with disabilities.

Nobody taught us how to deal with such kinds of disabilities, and as many questions as possible started to come to our minds.

In the United States, probably the most astonishing statistic is a 600 percent increase in autism and autistic spectrum disorders and other learning disabilities.

And as you can see virtually 30 of all disabilities from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders or neuro psychiatric syndromes.

Of course the brain, the human brain, which is where our knowledge is situated, is the repository of all of those developmental interactions.

I have to give you a very, very quick lesson in developmental biology, with apologies to those of you who know some biology.

Which means that each and every one of you here today knows at least one child that is suffering from a developmental disorder.

For too long now, children with developmental disorders have suffered from misdiagnosis while their real problems have gone undetected and left to worsen.

And what I'd like to suggest is a view that many today in developmental science hold, which is that knowledge comes from development itself.

this is what you did wrong, whereas the language and care and developmental designs is all about self regulation, about acknowledging what you've done.