Talk:Nonverbal autism

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Citation number 7 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763400000117?via%3Dihub) is an unreliable source. The abstract for the paper contains the quote " Since the childhood psychiatric condition of autism involves deficits in “social intelligence”, it is plausible that autism may be caused by an amygdala abnormality.". As autism is not a childhood condition (rather, a condition that follows an individual throughout their entire life), the paper immediately shows a lack of knowledge on autism, and should be considered unreliable.

ScienceDirect is an extremely reliable website, it is recommended by google scholar. --Cassie Schebel (talk) 19:24, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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Nonverbal? or NON SPEAKING!?
The lead sentence says, "Nonverbal autism is a subset of autism where the person does not learn how to speak", but I wonder if this article should be redone to reflect that nonspeaking does not always mean nonverbal, since it would appear that autistics who do not speak may be able to comprehend written words, and therefore are not nonverbal? I realize that the 'definition' of nonverbal says nonspeaking, but it's root, 'verbal' relates to the use of verbs (not just the speaking of them), and verbs an be utilized in written form, not just spoken. Here's some info I found: Nonspeaking Autistic Students: https://xminds.org/Nonspeaking-Autistics UnderEducatedGeezer (talk) 08:58, 24 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Your use of autistic as a noun "autistics" shows me your incompetence. Verbal, as it is used, refers to spoken language, regardless of the root of the word. Cassie Schebel (talk) 01:49, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Autistic is a noun. I'm unclear on why you chose to insult the OP rather than to discuss their suggestion, but I don't think it was a reasonable choice. 74.119.250.242 (talk) 08:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

The article already reflects that by specifying "spoken language" in the introduction, instead of just saying "language".--75.166.166.170 (talk) 19:03, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Disputed Claim
In the fifth paragraph of the "potential causes" section, there is a claim that the inability to empathize is "a characteristic symptom of ASD" which is a disputed claim and also does not have a citation attached. The section still would not appear incomplete if this disputed claim were to be removed. --Cassie Schebel (talk) 19:25, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Misleading prevalence
Two of the three studies which were cited by the article that uses the "25-50%" estimate have a sample size of less than 200, and both were conducted before the release of the DSM-5 in 2013 when the diagnoses of Kanner's Autism, Asperger's syndrome, etc. were merged into one. It would be nice if this statistic were updated to provide a more accurate reflection of the current percentage of non-verbal autists. 73.193.11.171 (talk) 07:53, 24 January 2023 (UTC)