Semantic-Pragmatic Disorder (SPD)

Semantic-pragmatic disorder (SPD), also known as social communication disorder (SCD), is lifelong difficulty in communicating with challenges in comprehension, expression, and social skills. Children with SPD may be late talkers or read early/without comprehension, have difficulty with social events or making eye contact, not understand sarcasm or non-literal language, and have difficulty with social rules (taking turns, facial expressions, interrupting). Autism-related, it’s sometimes described as the “outer spectrum of autism.”