Quote:
Originally Posted by t walgamuth
In my daughters Pediatric practice she has created a niche in which she does a lot of work with Autistic kids. She has worked out some unconventional methods of treating them which seem to work at a point in time when the conventional wisdom is there is nothing to do for them medically.
She also sees a lot of kids classified as having Asbergers syndrome which she seems to see as being related to autism. I confess i don't really understand it all that well.She says that the parents of the kids with Asbergers must be able to tell the kids no and have a level of discipline or they will veer off and be non productive citizens if allowed to simply do whatever they wish.
|
No need to learn about it. It's been eliminated! The new DSM-5 does away with the term.
CHICAGO -- The now familiar term "Asperger's disorder" is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But "dyslexia" and other learning disorders remain.
The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation's psychiatrists. Changes were approved Saturday.
Full details of all the revisions will come next May when the American Psychiatric Association's new diagnostic manual is published, but the impact will be huge, affecting millions of children and adults worldwide. The manual also is important for the insurance industry in deciding what treatment to pay for, and it helps schools decide how to allot special education.
DSM-5: Psychiatrists OK Vast Changes To Diagnosis Manual
I met a woman a couple of weeks ago at a dinner party who admitted to having this condition. She talked about this change. ( I admit I had never heard of "Aspergers" prior to this discussion.) She was a character.
