“research in ASD has tended to use overwhelmingly White, middle to upper middle class samples, and has often excluded children with multiple disabilities and/or severe to profound intellectual disabilities”. [underlining added – H…
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism and Intellectual Disability in the DSM5: My Submission to the DSM5 Neurodevelopmental Disorders Work Group
July 17 2011
Neurodevelopmental Disorders DSM Work GroupAmerican Psychiatric Association
Dear NDD Work Group Members
I am the father of a 15 year old son diagnosed at age 2 with Autistic Disorders and assessed with profound developmental delays condi…
Facing 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: TIME Promotes Myth That Many With Autism are Highly Intelligent
In Could Amanda Knox Have an Autism Spectrum Disorder? TIME adds its influential voice to those who propagate the myth that “many with autism are highly intelligent”.
Amanda Knox is the 23-year-old American college student who was convicted of…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism and the Stigma of Intellectual Disability: Some CDC Facts
CDC: Intelligence quotient (IQ) of children aged 8 years with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for whom psychometric test data were available,* by site and sex (IQ) score-Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 sites, United St…
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