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I think that people with social (pragmatic) communication disorder have problems on the same level of severity as people with 6A02.0 from ICD-11. I suppose that people with SPCD often have comorbid developmental visual-spatial disorder and (or) attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. It makes they level of functioning even more aligned with the level of functioning of people with autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability and with no/mild functional language impairment. In my opinion SPCD could be called "an atypical kind of autism". I suppose that people with dominance of verbal skills over visual-spatial skills who do not met DSM-V criteria of ASD and have social ineptitude may tend to have SPCD which makes them socially inept and their functioning may be lowered even more by attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and (or) cognitive disengagement syndrome. A person with NVLD who was deprived of ASD diagnosis may have comorbid developmental visual-spatial disorder, social (pragmatic) communication disorder, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and cognitive disengagement syndrome. It is global neuroatypicality, not specific one.

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I have poor executive functioning. I have Asperger syndrome diagnosis. In Wechsler IQ test in 2016 my Verbal Comprehension Index was 25 points higher than my Perceptual Organization Index.

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I found a chart of average scaled scores in WISC-IV for children with Asperger syndrome, NVLD and some other developmental disorders. Two first subscales on the chart were Block Design and Similarities. Average score in Block Design in ASP group was about 11 and in NVLD group it was about 7,5. Average score in Similarities in ASP group was a bit above 12 and in NVLD group it was about 11,5. Block Design subscale is in Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) and PIQ and Similarities subscale is in Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) and VIQ. I did not WISC-IV, but WAIS-R and I scored 14 in Block Design and 13 in Similarities, if I remember it well. It looks bizarre that my POI (counterpart of PRI) was 25 points lower than VCI and that I think that I have just NVLD, not ASP/ASD or comorbidity of ASP/ASD and NVLD despite minimally higher Block Design than Similarities on my WAIS-R done when I was about 24,5 years old in 2016. I received diagnoses of Asperger syndrome, OCD and schizotypal disorder when I left day hospital on which I had WAIS-R test with a psychologist.

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NVLD (not DVSD) appears to be so similar to F84.5/6A02.0 IMHO that I may wonder if it is in fact a kind or subtype of F84.5/6A02.0.

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I would suppose that I have ASD + NLD, not NLD alone or even ASD alone. PIQ was about 60th percentile, Coding about 80th - 87th percentile (like Similarities and Comprehension), Block Design about 88th - 93rd percentile (like Vocabulary) on my WAIS-R test while my full scale IQ was about 87th percentile, but there were 25 points (above 1,5 SD) between my Verbal Comprehension Index (125) and my Perceptual Organization Index (100). My Arithmetic (the highest of all eleven subscales in my test) and Information (which made my VCI about 95th percentile) subscales were in very superior range. In childhood (even before going to elementary school) I was interested in mathematics, astronomy and road signs.

I think that my Wechsler intelligence profile from 2016 looks highly atypical in mamy aspects in comparison to typical Wechsler profiles in ASD or NLD. It showed no Coding valley (atypical for both ASD and NLD), no Block Design valley (atypical for NLD), Arithmetic-Information top (in math learning disability there appears to be the opposite phenomenon on average), some degree od spikiness inside WMI, POI and VCI in my WAIS-R results, moderate spikiness of entire profile (above three standard deviations, Arithmetic 18 (the highest) versus Picture Arrangement 8 (the lowest)), large gap between VCI and POI (suggesting NLD, at least superficially). The psychologist wrote that my WAIS-R results suggest schizoaffective disorder according to Rabin and Piedmont formula.

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ifferences - very interesting work from 2010 (Identifying Nonverbal Learning Disability using the WISC-IV: Establishing Diagnostic Differences).

I consider that, according to this text, NVLD would be present when three conditions are met:
1. Verbal Comprehension Index is at least 11 points higher than Perceptual Reasoning Index
2. Block Design scale score is at least 3 points higher than Vocabulary scale score
3. Coding scale score it at least 3 points higher than Vocabulary scale score.

In WAIS-R I had VCI 125 and POI ("equivalent" of PRI) was 100, so the difference between VCI and POI was 25 and it was quite large, well above 10. But Vocabulary was 14, Block Design was 14 and Coding was 14, so I would not met criteria 2 and 3 mentioned above because differences between Vocabulary scaled score and Block Design scaled score or Coding scaled score were both smaller than three.

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News: Norovirus is rife, schools closed because of it
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