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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 07:17 pm |
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Does DSM-IV Asperger's Disorder Exist?
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, June 2001
by Susan Dickerson, Susan L. Calhoun, Dana L. Crites
There seems to be a certain level of ambiguity in our field...
"(Eisenmajer et al., 1996; Ghaziuddin et al., 1992b; Manjiviona & Prior, 1995; Miller & Ozonoff, 1997; Szatmari et al., 1995). Szatmari et al. (1995) concluded that a diagnosis of Asperger's disorder is impossible using DSM-IV criteria.
Many experts (Attwood, 1998; Eisenmajer et al., 1996; Manjiviona & Prior, 1995; Myhr, 1998; Schopler, 1985, 1996, 1998; Wing, 1991, 1998) now consider autism a spectrum disorder with children who have relatively high IQs and mild symptoms at the "high-functioning" end of the continuum. In 1987, Rutter and Schopler (1987) stated, "of all the psychiatric syndromes arising in childhood, autism is much the best validated by empirical research" (p. 180). To compromise this validity by introducing empirically unsubstantiated subtypes is unfortunate. In the authors' clinical experience, children with autism who have relatively mild symptoms and high IQs are variously referred to by different clinicians as having autism, high-functioning autism, mild autism, Asperger's disorder or syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, or autistic features. This causes much confusion for parents and professionals and implies that these diagnoses represent separate and distinct disorders differing in clinically meaningful ways, which may not be the case and which certainly has not been proven empirically."
Hmmm. Kind of makes you wonder if any DSM disorders actually exist.
For the entire article, go to:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0902/is_3_29/ai_76558499
This article originally published in the November 2007 KASP Online Gazette
http://www.kernschoolpsych.org/novkog23.htm
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