BCAT Exam Study Sheet (2023 - 2024) With Complete Top Solution Deficits in Social Emotional Reciprocity - Range from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back and forth conversations; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect: to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction - Manifested by absent, reduced, or atypical use of eye contact (relative to cultural norms), gestures, facial expressions, body orientation, or speech intonation. Deficits in developing maintaining and understanding relationships - Ranging from difficulties adjusting behavior to suit various social context; to difficulties in sharing imaginative play or in making friends; to absence of interest in peers Stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, use of objects or speech - Simple motor stereotypies, lining up toys or flipping objects, echolalia, idiosyncratic phrases (language with a private meaning; only makes sense to those familiar with the situation where the phrases came from) Insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns of verbal or non-verbal behavior - Extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions, rigid thinking patterns, greeting rituals, need to take same route or eat same food everyday Highly restricted, fixated interests that are