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re:Dr. Amy Weatherby is...
Dr. Amy Weatherby is the first speech-language pathologist to serve on the DSM-5 board and helped to craft the language of this newly defined category. It highlights those with social communication/social pragmatic challenges who do not exhibit the more “restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities” which has been one of the diagnostic hallmarks of ASD. Other diagnoses which often overlap with people with social learning challenges (e.g., ADHD, nonverbal learning disorder, bi-polar, etc.) will also continue to be considered in the diagnostic mix of social, attention, and executive functioning symptoms.
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