The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das presented the paper, titled “An observational study on children with intellectual developmental disorder and comorbidities in rural Assam, India” and discussed it in the light of a new classificatory system in child psychiatry- the ABCD model in the International Conference on Wellbeing: Lifespan Perspectives & Practices for Sustainable Communities at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati, Assam, India.

Mythili Hazarika (the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC [SoMHiL]), Priyanka Devi Bora, Mridusmita Bagshi, and Bornali Das (the Secretary of SoMHiL) were the co-authors.