PDD-NOS – Pervasive Development Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, is not necessarily a mild form of autism. The meaning is in the name. It means that the diagno

PDD-NOS – Pervasive Development Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, is not necessarily a mild form of autism. The meaning is in the name. It means that the diagnosed doesn’t fit more specific diagnoses such as Kanner’s autism or Asperger syndrome. Even though someone who’s autistic fail to show intelligence through a test, I believe they still may be very intelligent and can show this better through training. I personally still believe reasoning skills can be trained by learning new heuristics at least.