{"id":232,"date":"2010-02-18T02:59:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/newsite\/?p=232"},"modified":"2010-03-10T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T08:05:59","slug":"aspergers-to-be-removed-from-dsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/aspergers-to-be-removed-from-dsm\/","title":{"rendered":"Asperger&#8217;s to be removed from DSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to numerous sources, the APA is proposing major changes today to the DSM-V. Asperger\u2019s Disorder is likely to be eliminated, causing a more symptom-driven diagnosis. All autism-related disorders will be placed into a general category known as Autism Spectrum Disorders. &#8220;Dimensions&#8221; will now differentiate ASD including current language functioning and intellectual level\/disability. One possibility is the use of autism \u2013 mild\/moderate\/severe, with Asperger\u2019s being referred to as mild. PDD-NOS and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder will also now be subsumed under ASD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are a few links for reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsm5.org\/\">DSM V Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.org\/MainMenu\/Research\/DSMIV\/DSMV\/DSMRevisionActivities\/ConferenceSummaries\/AutismConference.aspx\">Psych.org Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrongplanet.net\/postt79340.html\">WrongPlanet.net Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/09\/a-look-at-the-dsm-v-draft\/\">PsychCentral.com Article: A look at the DSM V draft<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to numerous sources, the APA is proposing major changes today to the DSM-V. Asperger\u2019s Disorder is likely to be eliminated, causing a more symptom-driven diagnosis. All autism-related disorders will be placed into a general category known as Autism Spectrum Disorders. &#8220;Dimensions&#8221; will now differentiate ASD including current language functioning and intellectual level\/disability. One possibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}