Excessive adherence to routines, ritualized patterns of verbal or nonverbal behavior, or excessive resistance to change (such as motoric rituals, insistence on same route or food, repetitive questioning or extreme distress at small changes).3. Stereotyped or repetitive speech, motor movements, or use of objects (such as simple motor stereotypes-hand flapping, foot tapping, rocking, echolalia (the automatic repetition of vocalizations made by another person), repetitive use of objects-spinning wheels, repetitively flicking light switches, or idiosyncratic phrases, which are considered “stimming” behaviors.2. Individuals must display restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities as manifested by at least two of the following:1. Deficits in developing and maintaining relationships, appropriate to developmental level (beyond those with caregivers) ranging from difficulties adjusting behavior to suit different social contexts through difficulties in sharing imaginative play and in making friends, to an apparent absence of interest in people. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction ranging from poorly integrated-verbal and nonverbal communication, through abnormalities in eye contact and body-language, or deficits in understanding and the use of nonverbal communication, to total lack of facial expression or gestures.3. Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity ranging from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back and forth conversation through reduced sharing of interests, emotions, and affect and response to a total lack of initiation of social interaction.2.

In order for an individual to be diagnosed (under the new criteria) with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), they must display persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction manifested by all three of the following:1.

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