Sentences with phrase «categories as autism»

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He's been diagnosed as PDD - NOS (the «other» or «sort of» category of the autism spectrum) so that may have something to do with it.

Their responses were grouped into 10 categories of concerns, which were classified as either autism concerns (including speech / communication, social and restricted and repetitive behavior concerns) or non-autism concerns (including motor, general development and disruptive behavior concerns).

Shattuck did not reject the idea that rising autism levels might be in part due to environmental causes; he merely showed the increase was largely an artifact of changing diagnostic practices, which themselves had been enabled by rising levels of attention to autism and its listing as a diagnostic category in special education.

Controversially, it also included several newly identified disorders such as Asperger's and a sub-threshold category, called «pervasive developmental disorder — not otherwise specified» (PDD - NOS), for those who did not quite meet criteria for a full autism diagnosis but needed similar support.

«Predicting autism as a category isn't necessarily that useful,» Jones says.

Most of the 6.5 million special education students (except for a portion with the most significant cognitive disabilities who may fall in such categories as intellectual disabilities, autism, and multiple disabilities) participate in the general state assessment.