{"id":9,"date":"2012-06-15T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/dev\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2012-06-29T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:00:40","slug":"types-of-autism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Types of Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Is There More Than One Type of Autism?<\/h2>\n<p>Autism is a spectrum disorder, meaning that the symptoms and characteristics of autism can  present themselves in a wide variety of combinations, from mild to severe.  Although autism is  defined by a certain set of behaviors, children and adults can exhibit any pattern of behaviors to  any degree of severity.  Two children, both diagnosed with autism, can act very differently from  one another.<br \/>\nProfessionals utilize a diagnostic handbook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, now in its  fourth edition (DSM-IV).  Autism falls under the category of Pervasive Developmental Disorders.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Other disorders which are classified as Pervasive Developmental Disorders include:<\/strong>  <strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pervasive Developmental Disorder- Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)<\/li>\n<li>Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD) <\/li>\n<li>Rett\u2019s Disorder <\/li>\n<li>Asperger\u2019s Disorder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CDD and Rett\u2019s Disorder occur rarely in the general population.  More common is PDD-NOS, in  which the child has some of the symptoms of autism, but does not fully meet the criteria for  Autistic Disorder.  Asperger\u2019s Disorder is often referred to as \u201chigh functioning autism.\u201d  This is a  misnomer.  The difference between high functioning autism and Asperger\u2019s is that early language  development in children with Asperger\u2019s is mostly typical, while language development is delayed  or deviant in children with autism.  <\/p>\n<p>Some diagnosticians use terms not in the DSM-IV, such as &#8220;autistic like&#8221;, &#8220;learning disabled with  autistic tendencies&#8221;,&#8221; autistic traits&#8221;, etc.  These labels do not describe differences between the  children as much as they indicate differences between the professionals\u2019 training, vocabulary,  and exposure to autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is There More Than One Type of Autism? Autism is a spectrum disorder, meaning that the symptoms and characteristics of autism can present themselves in a wide variety of combinations, from mild to severe. Although autism is defined by a certain set of behaviors, children and adults can exhibit any pattern of behaviors to any degree of severity. Two children,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/232"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workingwithautism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}