The symptoms of this disorder include:

• deficits in social interaction, social understanding, pragmatics, and language processing
• deficits using appropriate greetings
• changing language and communication style based on setting or partner
• deficits in telling and understanding stories
• deficits in engaging in conversation (e.g., initiating or entering a conversation, topic maintenance, turn-taking, responsivity, providing the right amount of information)
• deficits in repairing communication breakdowns (e.g., rephrasing when misunderstood)
• deficits using appropriate verbal (e.g., prosodic features) and nonverbal (e.g., gestures) signals to regulate interactions
• deficits in interpreting the verbal and nonverbal signals of others during an interaction
• deficits in understanding ambiguous or figurative language
• deficits in making inferences (understanding information that is not explicitly stated)
• deficits in forming and maintaining close relationships