A group of Neuro development disorders characteristized by deficits in social interaction and communication and unusual and repetitive behaviour
A continuum of autistic disorders
An autistic continuum
Highlights the range in terms of number or severity of symptoms that individuals may experience.
Many possible symptom variants
Some but not all people with ASD are non-verbal varies from mild to severe in different individuals and severely affected patients can often appear profoundly retarded.
At one extreme, there are children who require very specialist care and provision which will necessarily continue into adulthood. At the other extreme, there are children who can successfully and meaningfully be included within a mainstream school