Introduction:

The term “neurodevelopmental disorder” includes different combinations of deficiencies in the abilities expected for the chronological age of a child, taking into account the motor, speech, socialization, sensorial and sphincter control’s scopes, and in the affected patients can be related some diseases (comorbility).

Objective:

To examine the main chronic comorbilities that can present in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Methods:

The search sources were computerized databases as: PubMed, Ebsco, SciELO; also references identified in the reviewed articles and that were considered as important and with scientific validity, with ten or less years of being published. 42 of 59 were published in the last five years. There were used for the search the following keywords in Spanish, English and French languages, depending on the source: neurodevelopmental disorders, children development, comorbility, autistic disorder.

Results:

The most frequent comorbilities or the ones which are important due to their impact in the life of patients with neurodevelopmental disorders are: epilepsy, audition and sight disorders, mental conditions, deglutition difficulty and poor nutritional state.

Final considerations:

The occurrence of comorbility in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders is frequent; it can be present in the nervous system or in other systems of the body, and it contributes for the life quality of these patients being less affected.