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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think its the new catch-all, which used to be PDD-NOS.[/quote]

No it's not.  If you don't have a kid with this diagnosis, best not to give ignorant opinions.[/quote]

Actually, I think this is true. The removal of PDD-NOS from the DSM and the creation of social-communication disorder suggests that borderline ASD diagnoses will now be SCD instead of PDD-NOS. The problem with SCD is that it's not clear how it exists outside of the DSM -- eg there is not a big body of research on diagnostic tests and therapies. That's why it's probably better to look to ASD therapies on social skills for guidance. My kid sounds a lot like OPs and that is what we are doing. 
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Social skill therapies are all based on some group or another, but it the rigor under which they were designed that makes Unstuck and On Target, The Kazdin Method, or Superflex generalizable to other kids with LDs or even NT kids.

However, Social Communication Pragmatics disorder is a stand alone diagnosis unto itself.  There is a lot of similarity between ASD, so at 4 it's possible the OP's kid will actually receive an ASD diagnosis down the line.  You "opinion" doesn't make something true and quite frankly is patronizing to parents who have been given this diagnosis since it was created with and who never received an autism diagnosis even with the ADOS.  It's not just autism-lite.  
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It's a diagnosis that was created on paper, not out of research.  It's not a new disorder that suddenly came into being because the DSM drafters discovered it as a new disease.  The DSM is to a certain extent a line-drawing exercise, and kids who are on the ASD line will fall into SCD now.  Not sure why you find that insulting?  I have a kid who likely (not sure yet) will be give an SCD diagnosis and I have no problem with this.

"Some children who previously would have received a diagnosis of PDD-NOS may now receive a diagnosis of Social Communication Disorder."

https://www.autismspeaks.org/dsm-5/faq

":The inclusion of SCD was partially driven by the transition from DSM-IV PDD to DSM-5 ASD and the subsequent loss of DSM-IV PDD-NOS. PDD-NOS was a broad diagnostic category that included all conditions in which “there is severe and pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction associated with impairment in either verbal or nonverbal communication skills or with the presence of stereotyped behaviors, interests, and activities"

https://jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1866-1955-6-41

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