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DSM-V Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnostic Criteria

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1-) As stated below, persistent insufficiency in social communication and social interaction, which is seen in different ways now or in the past.

– Inability to respond social-emotional (for example; from the unusual societal approach to the difficulty in conducting a mutual dialogue.; their interests, from the inability to share one's feelings or affections, inability to respond to social interaction).
– Inability to use nonverbal communicative behaviors for social interaction (for example, poorly integrated verbal and non-verbal communication, abnormal eye contact and body language, or inability to understand and use gestures and obvious deficits, including facial expression and body language
– Relationships, developing, difficulty maintaining and understanding, for example, from not behaving appropriately in different social environments., unable to share pretend play and make friends, Behaviors ranging from not showing interest in friends.
current severity, violence, social communicative deficiencies and limited, determined by repetitive behaviors.

2-) manifested by the presence of at least two of the following, limited now and in the past, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.

– Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, object use or speech (Simple motor stereotypes, stacking or turning toys, ekolali, idiosyncratic sentences)
– insist on being the same, adherence to routine or ritualized verbal and nonverbal behavior (extreme stress on minor changes, difficulty in transitions, hard way of thinking, greeting rituals, choosing the same route or the same food every day).
– Boundary that is abnormal in subject or intensity, fixed interests (abnormal over-attachment to uncommon objects, overly repetitive or limited interests).
– Sensory over- or under-sensitivity, or over-attention to the sensory dimension of the environment (extreme insensitivity to pain/heat, unexpected response to certain sounds and touches, excessive sniffing or excessive touching of objects, being visually too busy with light or movement).
current severity, violence is determined by inadequacies in social communication and limited repetitive behaviors.

3-) Symptoms must be present in the early stages of development (may be unrecognized until societal expectations cross borders or masked by strategies learned later in life).

4-) Symptoms social, must cause clinically significant impairment in occupational and other important areas.

5-) This disorder must not be due to intellectual disability or general developmental delay. Although intellectual disability and ASD are often seen together, however, the social communicative level must be below the general development in order to be diagnosed with ASD and intellectual disability..

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