0 connected with the development of someone or something: --
a developmental disorder/disability
1 relating to the process of growing or changing into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form: --
The program offers adventures for people with developmental disabilities (= physical or mental conditions that prevent someone from growing and developing in a way that is considered usual) .
From this work, a more complex picture emerges about the developmental trajectories of children harmed both early and later in life.
However, recently there have been attempts made to devise statistical methods for classifying subjects into groups based on their developmental trajectories.
Although post hoc classification of youth to various developmental trajectories has heuristic value, this method is fraught with problems as well.
Finally, the extent of negative consequences of a disorder can vary as a function of normative developmental trajectories.
Practitioners are trained to recognize these differences and apply them to developmental interventions.
Thus, morphological awareness tended to progress in a clear developmental pattern in relation to spelling of morphemes indicating past tense.
In each of these areas of inquiry, the themes of organized complexity, developmental transactions, and the meaning of context are pervasive.
A critical developmental task of adolescence, therefore, is the construction of multiple selves in different roles and relationships.