Reactive Airways Disease

Abbreviation for Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Reactive attachment disorder. A disturbance that involves social interactions due sometimes to the result of the neglect of the child's basic physical and emotional needs.

Reactive Attachment Disorder. a condition, resulting from an early lack of consistent care, characterized by a child’s or infant’s inability to make appropriate social contact with others. Symptoms include developmental delays, lack of eye contact, feeding disturbances, hyper-sensitivity to touch and sound, failure to initiate or respond to social interaction, indiscriminate sociability, self-stimulation, and susceptibility to infection.

Reactive attachment disorder. Disorder of infancy resulting from severely deficient or abusive parenting, signaled by a child's failure to thrive, to gain weight, and to engage in the social interaction expected at his/her age.