Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder is classified as persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction, deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships, restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities, insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or nonverbal, highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity, and hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment.