Autism spectrum disorder
Contents
Clinical features
- Deficits in social communications & interactions with onset in early development
- Sharing of emotions or interests
- Nonverbal communication
- Developing & understanding relationships
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior
- Repetitive movements or speech
- Insistence on sameness/routines
- Intense, fixated interests
- Adverse responses to sensory input
- May occur with or without language & intellectual impairment