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
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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.
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Research is resulting in more and more people describing autism in the plural as autism disorders with different causes and different possible treatments.
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It is time to merge High Functioning autism disorders with Aspergers Disorder and separate them from Autistic Disorder.
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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.