VI. Cognition

-Difficulties in attention regulation and executive functioning

-Lack of sustained curiosity

-Problems with processing novel information

-Problems focusing on and completing tasks

-Problems with object constancy

-Difficulty planning and anticipating

-Problems understanding own contribution to what happens to them

-Learning difficulties

-Problems with language development

-Problems with orientation in time and space

-Acoustic and visual perceptual problems

-Impaired comprehension of complex visual-spatial patterns

VII. Self-Concept

-Lack of a continuous, predictable sense of self

-Poor sense of separateness

-Disturbances of body image

-Low self-esteem

-Shame and guilt