ASD

Question 1

ASD

Answer 1

Persistent deficits in social communication & social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative, not exhaustive):
Deficits in social emotional reciprocity (normal back & forth conversation, reduced sharing of interest, emotions, or affect, failure to initiate/respond to social interactions)
Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction (abnormalities in eye contact & body language; understanding & use of gestures, lack of facial expressions & nonverbal communication)
Deficits in developing/maintaining/understanding relationships (difficulties adjusting behavior to various social contexts, difficulty making friends, absence in interest in other peers)
Specify severity of the above, then look at restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, as manifested by at least 2 of the following (current or in history):
Stereotyped/repetitive motor movements
Insistence on sameness, extreme distress re: changes in routine, need to eat the same food every day, rigid thinking patterns
Highly restricted, fixated interests abnormal in intensity/focus
Hyper/hyporeactivity to sensory input/unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment
Specify severity of the above, then look at:
Symptoms must be present in early developmental period
Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
Symptoms are not better explained by Intellectual Disability or global developmental delay

Question 2

ASD (specify)

Answer 2

Specify if:
With/without accompanying intellectual impairment
With/without accompanying language impairment
Associated w/ a known medical/genetic condition/environmental factor
Associated w/ another neurodevelopmental, mental, or behavior disorder
W/ catatonia

Question 3

ASD ed code

Answer 3

(i) Autism means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
ii) Autism does not apply if a child’s educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has an emotional disturbance, as defined in paragraph (c)(4) of this section.