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Tero Toivanen

BMSO Training Manuals - 0 views

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    Training manuals cover a wide range of behavioral strategies, including Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), Priming, Understanding Problem Behaviors, Self-Management, Parent-Professional Collaboration, and Toilet Training.
Tero Toivanen

Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Severity - 0 views

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    The DSM V committees drafting revisions to the manual are considering distinguishing between autism disorders based on severity or level of functioning.
Tero Toivanen

Why Asperger Syndrome Will Disappear - 5 views

  • 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.
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    "Unless something changes between now and then, as of 2013, Asperger syndrome will no longer exist as a diagnosis."
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