Stereotypical Behaviors:
- Insistence on sameness; resistance to change.
- Difficulty in expressing needs; using gestures or pointing instead of words.
- Repeating words or sentences instead of using normal, responsive language (echolalia).
- Laughing, crying, showing distress for reasons not apparent to others.
- Aloof behavior, seeking solitude.
- Tantrums.
- Refusal to cuddle or be cuddled.
- Little or no eye contact .
- Unresponsiveness to normal teaching methods.
- Sustained odd play.
- Inappropriate attachments to objects.
- Apparent over-sensitivity or under-sensitivity to pain.
- No fear of danger.
- Uneven gross/fine motor skills.
- Not responsive to verbal cues; acts as if deaf although hearing tests in normal range.
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