“Catherine Lord, the director of the Institute for Brain Development at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and a member of the committee overseeing the [DSM-5 autism] revisions, said that the goal was to ensure that autism was not used as a “fallback diagnosis” for children whose primary trait might be, for instance, an
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Study Confirms DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder Excludes Low Functioning, Intellectually Disabled Autistics
The abstract following is for the article Testing the Construct Validity of Proposed Criteria for DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, authors William P.L. Mandy, D.Clin.Psy., Tony Charman, Ph.D., David H. Skuse, M.D.Accepted 21 October 2011. published online 05 December 2011. The study participants were 708 children and young persons who had mild to
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Asperger’s Spectrum Disorder in the DSM-5: Why the Concealment?
One of the great DSM-5 puzzles to this father of a severely autistic son is the use of the label Autism Spectrum Disorder to describe what appears to be little more than a tweaked version of the DSM-IV’s Asperger’s Disorder. The APA’s DSM-5 team has replaced Autism with Aspergers, removed
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: FOX News Autism Experts Worry About DSM5 Impact on High Functioning Autistic Children, No Concern for Low Functioning Autistic Children
FOX News has published a report, Some Experts Worried Over Revised Autism Guidelines, in which two autism experts, Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and Fox News contributor, and Dr. Thomas Frazier, who treats children with autism at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, express their concerns about the possible impact of
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Advantage? NO! Conor Advantage? YES!
If you have been to this blog before you know that I talk about autism as a disorder not as an advantage. If someone does not have any deficits in daily functioning ability then, by everything I have read in the DSM’s, and in materials written by psychologists, psychiatrists
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder: 3 Domains Become 2 and Exclude Intellectually Disabled
In the DSM-5 the new Autism Spectrum Disorder will, for the most part focus on those with Aspergers’ and high functioing autism. The vast majority of those with Autistic Disorder who are also intellectually disabled will be excluded. This is clear fro…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: What is Severe Autism?
What is severe autism? Kim Oakley asks the question rhetorically before answering it in Silent Alarm. I strongly recommend anyone who wants to know what severe autism is read this latest comment by someone who has dealt with severe autism first…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: DSM-5 Autism Shell Game
WordNet Dictionary
Noun1.shell game – a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
Synonyms: thimblerig
The DSM-5 treatm…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Confirmation DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder Will Exclude Intellectually Disabled
I have written previously that persons who presently have autistic disorder or PDD-NOS and who are also intellectually disabled will be removed from the DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder. Whereas those with intellectual disability once constituted …
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Research: Which "Autism" Is Being Studied?
Neuron, Cover Page, 23 June, 2011 Volume 70, Issue 6
The abstract for the study Disrupted Neural Synchronization in Toddlers with Autism, reported in the current issue of Neuron, indicates that autism is tied to disrupted cortical synchronizatio…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Asperger’s is the New Autism: No Intellectually Disabled Allowed in the DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder
“the autism umbrella has since widened to include milder forms, says Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For example, it now includes Asperger syndrome, where the sufferer is social…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Low Functioning Autistic Persons Remain Invisible on CNN and in the DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder
Elizabeth Landau, a CNN Health writer/producer, mentions briefly the DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder, in a report on the organizational changes in the DSM-5 in Psychiatry ‘bible’ structure overhauled. Ms. Landau’s discussion of changes in the DSM…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Research After the DSM5? At Least Grinker Will Be Happy
Will the DSM5 render meaningless all autism research to date? Will the DSM5 make it impossible to determine whether autism disorders are increasing or whether they are triggered or caused by environmental factors? The odds are good, given the diffi…
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