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Tero Toivanen

Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Diagnoses: DSM V Should Separate Autistic Disord... - 0 views

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autism diagnoses DSM V HFA Asperger Syndrome

shared by Tero Toivanen on 12 May 09 - Cached
  • This inclusion of substantially different disorders, with wildly different challenges, in one "spectrum" of disorders implies that the very serious challenges of persons with Autistic Disorder who lack a fundamental understanding of the world, who have very limited abstract thought and who have very little in the way of communication skills are somehow fundamentally similar to persons with good to excellent facilities in all these crucial areas of life.
  • Research is resulting in more and more people describing autism in the plural as autism disorders with different causes and different possible treatments.
  • It is time for the DSM to get realistic about the Autism "Spectrum".
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  • It is time to merge High Functioning autism disorders with Aspergers Disorder and separate them from Autistic Disorder.
  • It is time for the DSM to recognize the importance of levels of ability to function in and understand the world and to reflect those levels in their classification of development disorders.
  • Tero Toivanen on 12 May 09
     
    It is time to merge High Functioning autism disorders with Aspergers Disorder and separate them from Autistic Disorder.
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Severity - 0 views

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autism DSM V HFA LFA Asperger Syndrome DSM-IV

shared by Tero Toivanen on 18 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 18 Jun 09
     
    The DSM V committees drafting revisions to the manual are considering distinguishing between autism disorders based on severity or level of functioning.
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Why Asperger Syndrome Will Disappear - 5 views

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Asperger syndrome Asperger's Disorder Asperger's Syndrome autism DSM V

shared by Tero Toivanen on 26 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is now in the process of developing and finalizing the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Version 5.
  • autism spectrum disorders as we know them will change radically, and many people who are now considered to be "autistic" may find themselves with a brand new diagnosis.
  • Unless something changes between now and then, as of 2013, Asperger syndrome will no longer exist as a diagnosis.
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  • A person with present symptoms of Asperger syndrome would fall in the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, and we would expect there to be additional specifiers like "without intellectual disability", "with fluent speech", etc., which we believe will better describe the diagnostic picture for such a person than is currently done with the term Asperger Syndrome alone.
  • Tero Toivanen on 26 Jun 11
     
    "Unless something changes between now and then, as of 2013, Asperger syndrome will no longer exist as a diagnosis."
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