Two small wording changes for clarity have been made in the revision of the DSM-5 (DSM-5-TR) entry for ASD released March 2022.

Quoting from the spectrum news article from March 17, 2022 (https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/dsm-5-revision-tweaks-autism-entry-for-clarity/)

The DSM-5, released in 2013, indicated that an autism diagnosis requires “persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following”: deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction, and in developing, maintaining and understanding relationships. The first text revision in the new DSM-5-TR adds two words to that description: “as manifested by all of the following.”

The second change swaps out a single word describing the “specifiers” that can accompany an autism diagnosis. Whereas the DSM-5 wording instructs clinicians to specify if a person’s autism is “associated with another neurodevelopmental, mental or behavioral disorder,” the DSM-5-TR version reads: “associated with a neurodevelopmental, mental, or behavioral problem.” It still instructs clinicians to use additional diagnostic codes whenever appropriate, but it no longer requires specifiers to be diagnosable conditions.

Changes have also been made to Intellectual Disability. The new terminology is “intellectual developmental disorder (intellectual disability)”.

Please see the APA fact sheets for more information: https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/dsm-5-fact-sheets