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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typically NVLD is a gap of 40 or more points between verbal and visuo-spatial scores. People with NVLD are usually highly verbal. My DC also has Turner Syndrome. It’s estimated that 90+% of people with that diagnosis also have NVLD.

There is current research on it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11001940/#:~:text=Furthermore%2C%20children%20with%20NVLD%20showed,abnormalities%20in%20white%20matters%20tracts[/quote]

This does not seem like autism at all. Completely different diagnostic criteria and description[/quote]

It’s a really common autism profile to have a verbal, high IQ, but physically clumsy kid. My kid is ASD + DCD and could easily fit the criteria for NVLD if someone tried to apply that label. I don’t really care, but given that the vast majority of kids with “anxiety, ADHD and social communication issues” will be dx as autism these days, it seems purposeful to get the NVLD label and not autism. [/quote]

If you have a practitioner who is familiar with both, it’s actually quite easy to discern. And I’m not sure how it could be a “purposeful” diagnosis. I didn’t pick it. [/quote]

NVLD isn’t a DSM diagnosis. I’d be pretty skeptical of people claiming they can distinguish it from autism since there are no fixed diagnostic criteria for NVLD. [/quote]

There have been fixed diagnostic criteria for years. The fact that it’s not in the DSM doesn’t change that. [/quote]

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