What are the similarities and differences between asperger's syndrome and classic autism?

Type of impairment: This all wil change in 5/13. For the past 14-15 years, asperger's disorder has described people with longstanding poor social skills and odd or unusually intense preoccupations but relatively normal language, wherease autism has notable language impairment as well. Studies have failed to find marked differences other than in language, so new term will be austim spectrum disorder.

Aspergers: They are very different. Typically autism has severe speech delay and an iq below 70. Aspergers is usually average to have average intelligence. Autism spectrum and aspergers in 8 mins. Check it! http://youtu.Be/xg1ngp1ngds.

The same deficits : In reciprocal social interaction caused by lack of joint attention, facial recognition & theory of mind underlie all types of autism. Autistic Spectrum Disorder is now the diagnosis that "lumps" autism, AS & PDD-NOS in the DSM-V. There was a misperception that the old diagnosis of AS always implied superior cognitive skills. The DSM-IV required a "normal" IQ (> 70), not necessarily avg. or >.