NDD and intelligence: a psychometric network approach

The general hypothesis of this article is that neurodevelopmental disordersare also intelligence disorders, not in the sense of the development ofoperability, not in the sense of themobilization of specific mechanisms,but in the sense of a singular organization of cognitiveabilities. DNDsand intelligence are complex systems that share the same reality: they arebehaviors that occur together and cannot be attributed to unobservedcommon causes. They emerge from a network of interacting environmentaland/or biological factors. In this hypothesis, network models and/orgraph theory make it possible to compare them and to simulate these twophenomena.