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[quote=Anonymous]The biggest differences between Asperger’s and ASD used to be age of onset and deficit areas. When you combine 2 things (as they did by making Asperger’s into ASD Level 1) that don’t really look the same you end up with something that means nothing. These are from the old DSM-IV for Asperger’s, and certainly don’t fit the “traditional criteria” for ASD. I still can’t figure out why they combined these once very distinct diagnoses (besides insurance money): There is no clinically significant general delay in language (e.g., single words used by age 2 years, communicative phrases used by age 3 years). There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, or adaptive behavior (other than social interaction and curiosity about the environment in childhood).[/quote]
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