Should Asperger Syndrome Be Considered an Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Should Asperger Syndrome Be Considered an Autism Spectrum Disorder? Sunday November 8, 2009 Last week, I asked whether readers felt the diagnoses Asperger syndrome and PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified) should be removed from the diagnostic manual. If they were removed, people with those diagnoses would presumably be reclassified as simply “on the autism spectrum.” A signficant majority of you (65%) felt that those diagnoses were useful and meaningful enough to continue to be listed in the DSM-V (the new version of the manual used by mental health diagnosticians). Now for the big Is Asperger syndrome ap
Should Asperger Syndrome Be Considered an Autism Spectrum Disorder? Sunday November 8, 2009 Last week, I asked whether readers felt the diagnoses Asperger syndrome and PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified) should be removed from the diagnostic manual. If they were removed, people with those diagnoses would presumably be reclassified as simply “on the autism spectrum.” A signficant majority of you (65%) felt that those diagnoses were useful and meaningful enough to continue to be listed in the DSM-V (the new version of the manual used by mental health diagnosticians). Now for the big Is Asperger syndrome ap
