| Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, Asperger syndrome or a non-specific pervasive developmental disorder are also considered pervasive developmental disorders. |
| Internal disintegrative forces prevented Germany from becoming a national state, a process just beginning then in other western European countries. |
| Hugo's romantic drama is as disintegrative, regular in construction, perspicuous, and eloquent as a tragedy of Corneille. |
| Secessionists who dream of Norway and Denmark should at least take a peek not just at Ukraine but into the long nightmare of Bosnia – shaken again this month by disintegrative protests. |
| Today Rett syndrome is classified as a pervasive developmental disorder, a group of conditions that includes the autism spectrum disorders and childhood disintegrative disorder. |
| In the longer term, however, the more disintegrative forces unleashed by this crisis are likely to be hard to contain. |
