Changes to Mental Health Diagnosis Could Impact Caregivers

Source: The Huffington Post

How mental health professionals diagnose their patients could be changing and therefore affect patients, families, and caregivers after 2013. According to the American Psychiatric Association : The Diagnostic and Stat ...
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Who speaks for the disabled?

Source: Chicago Tribune

"No one knows better than I do what is best for my son." So began my conversation with Rita Burke, who along with her husband, Kevin, has raised seven kids. One is an assistant U.S. attorney. Another a nurse. Another a federal agent. Another a tea ...
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New report finds DSM-5 criteria unlikely to exclude many

Source: Simons Foundation Autism Research

Doubtful diagnosis: Some researchers question how the proposed diagnostic criteria for autism will affect those who have profound social communication deficits but few repetitive behaviors. Earlier this year, Susan Swedo, chief of ...
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Cognition and behavior: High IQ linked to anxiety in autism

Source: Simons Foundation Autism Research

Social rules: Knowing that their behavior is not socially acceptable, but being unable to control it, could make children with autism anxious. A high intelligence quotient (IQ), a good understanding of social skills, and aggressiveness may all contribute ...
Full article at: Simons Foundation Autism Research  More like this  2 days ago, 10:55am CDT

International Autism Experts to Gather in Jerusalem

Source: Arutz Sheva

Experts are planning to convene in Jerusalem from around the world this August on the issue of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Thousands of researchers, educators and policy experts will join families affected by the con ...
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The Spectrum of Autism

Source: Dummies.com

Some people classify autism spectrum disorders into subtypes by their presumed causes, but because science hasn't yet resolved the causes, this practice is controversial and not widely accepted. But you can look at autism as a spectr ...
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Geri's DSM-5 Update from IMFAR

Source: Autism Speaks

As many of you are aware, Autism Speaks is playing a proactive role in monitoring the effect of the planned revisions to the definition of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the upcoming 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...
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As understanding of autism increases, so does the number of children diagnosed

Source: Worthington Daily Globe

When Peg Ferguson started work as an autism teacher for the Duluth school district in the late 1980s, she was one of three who did that work. Today, with a smaller school population overall, there are 12 autism classro ...
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Officials: Mentally ill children who don't get help can end up in criminal justice system

Source: The Times

A developmentally disabled Crown Point teen was handcuffed by police and taken to the juvenile detention center after ramming a broom handle into his parents' bedroom door. A mentally ill teenager from Morgan County repeatedl ...
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