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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are confusing non verbal ASD and NVLD. completely different. [/quote]

Yes, those are different, but the old Asperger's diagnosis was often comorbid with or used for NVLD years ago. When I worked in the school system there were quite a few kids who either had both or one clinician said NVLD and the other said Asperger's. It doesn't matter that much. They often need social skills therapy to help with non-verbal cues among other things. There is a lot of overlap. It was surprising to get rid of the Aspergers diagnosis in the DSM because there is more difference between Aspergers and the more classic HFA (strong non-verbal/spacial skills/quantitative and weaker language processing skills). Just looking at IQ scores often both NVLD and Aspergers kids can have even 2 or more standard deviations between strong Verbal IQ and lower in visual spacial. The more classic HFA profile was the opposite-sometimes 2 or more standard deviations between strong visual spacial skills  and/or quantitative and weaker verbal IQ.[/quote]

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