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rarely using language to communicate with other people.

Signs of difficulties in this area include: To be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, children must have difficulties in the area of social communication.

have had characteristics from early childhood, even if these aren’t picked up until later in childhood.

Professionals diagnose autism spectrum disorder on the basis of difficulties in two areas – ‘social-communication’, and ‘restricted, repetitive and/or sensory behaviours or interests’. There’s also a separate diagnosis of social communication disorder (SCD). There’s now a single diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder that replaces the different subcategories that were used previously – autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder and pervasive developmental disorder – not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS).

The DSM-5 made some key changes to autism diagnosis.

#DSM MADE EASY PDF MANUAL#

The DSM-5 replaced the old manual (DSM-IV) in May 2013. These tests are called a diagnostic assessment. To find out whether a child has autism signs and characteristics and meets DSM-5 criteria, professionals also need to do extra tests. The DSM-5 refers to ‘signs and symptoms’, but this article talks about ‘signs and characteristics’. The DSM-5 lists the signs and symptoms of autism and states how many of these must be present to confirm a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. When diagnosing autism, professionals like paediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists and speech pathologists use the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th edition), or DSM-5, produced by the American Psychiatric Association. About the DSM and autism spectrum disorder diagnosis