Changes proposed in how psychiatrists diagnose

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The article talks about how the American Psychiatric Association is proposing to

change their " diagnostic bible " including the elimination of subdiagnosis in the

autism spectrum. The proposed change does away with the autism, asperger's

syndrome, and PDD labels and simplifies the diagnosis to autism spectrum

disorder.

http://news./s/ap/20100210/ap_on_he_me/us_med_mental_disorders

" The draft manual, posted at http://www.DSM5.org, is up for public debate

through April, and it's expected to be lively. "

I'm waiting for my son to be officially diagnosed with Asperger's. We've been

talking to the school about moving him from his behavior disorder class (only

place they could put him for now) to an Asperger's class next year. They have a

different class for Asperger's than the Autism class. Like one of the people

quoted in the article, I can't believe that combining these two groups into one

diagnosis and simply saying one is at one end of the severity and the other is

at the other end of the severity is going to be productive.