What are some neurodevelopmental disorders resulting from toxic chemicals?

Do you think
these disorders can be prevented? If so, how? If not, why not?
Not only today, when science has developed so much, but in the olden days also, the
relation between chemicals and brain development had been realized. History tells that people
who were working in chemically toxic condition were prone to having mental and developmental
problems, more so than those who were working in healthy conditions. Larry Silver, MD,
clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown university medical center, who has ADHD says
science suggests that exposures to toxin chemicals may contribute substantially to the incidence
of learning and developmental disabilities in the society and this concerns me deeply.
In the past also workers who were exposed to lead, and had many problems with
disability and sometimes had sudden dead. 2000 years ago, one of the Greek physicians
explained that lead exposure makes the mind give away (Carlson, 2013). Nowadays when
science itself is so developed and many research studies have been done, it is observed that even
a small dose of chemical can do big damage to the brain. The chemicals which are capable of
damaging ones developmental growth and affect the nervous system in bad way have been
given the name of developmental neurotoxicants or neurotoxic chemicals (Carlson, 2013).
It is so hard to save oneself from those toxins when they are polluting the air we breathe,
water we drink, and food we eat. If someone already has neurodevelopmental problems, then by
avoiding these kinds of chemicals in food, water and other things, can be controlled, although it
seems close to impossible.
References
Carlson, N. R. (2013). Physiology of behavior. (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon