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Specifies has been created to describe additional information relevant to the diagnosis in particular:
1. With or without accompanying intellectual and/or language impairment
2. Association with a known medical, genetic condition, or environmental factor
3. Association with another neurodevelopmental, mental or behavior disorder or catatonia
4. Severity of expression from Level 1 to Level 3 based on the level o support needed for social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors

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1. Social Reasoning- wide spectrum of difficulties in social interaction and social reasoning
2. Language Abilities- can range form non-verbal to very talkative and high fluency but have problems with the pragmatic aspects of language
3. Cognition- Can have profound learning difficulties and significant intellectual impairment.  Or is familiar with and has relatively advanced skills in such actives as construction toys or jigsaw puzzles. They can also have very different learning styles
4. Special Interests- Have a wide range of intense fixation on subject, such as trains, lights, stones, and much more
5. Sensory Sensitivity- Over stimulation from sound, light, touch or the place they are in, can cause break downs.
6. Expression and Management of Emotions- Psychologists have modified cognitive behavior therapy to treat mood disorders in children who have an ASD

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ASD is common with the following other disorders:
-Down Syndrome
-Cerebra Palsy and Muscular Dystrophy
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Involuntary Movements- motor and vocal
- Brain lesions causing tuberous sclerosis or neurofibromatosis

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Impaired Theory of Mind: not being able to see things from another persons perspective

Weak Central Coherence:
difficulty understanding the overall picture.

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Genitics - the original studies used twins. The rate of identical twins having autism is over 70% and non identical less than 5%. Chromosome abnormalities have been seen

neurology-dysfunction in two chemicals in the brain, abnormality limbic system

Infections in pregnancies-mothers contacting herbes virus in pregnancy vaccines have been blamed but no evidence has supported this theory

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Typically children who have Asperger Syndrome, remain in the Level 1 Severity Level of children with Autism Spectrum.

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- ASD is increasing all over the world
- More people are being diagnosed because we have conceptualized and broadened the definition of ASD
- We are more accurately diagnosing with more specific developmental disorder

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level 3
-sever deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, inflexibility of behavior, extreme difficulty in change
level 2
-social impairment even with support noticeable, inflexibility of behavior, and difficulty to change
level 1
- without support social impairment noticeable, inflexibility of behavior causes inference with functioning