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Occupational Therapy Association

Some of you have read about the latest change in the upcoming DSM-V. Recently the American Psychiatric Association (APA) proposed revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. They are recommending that Asperger Syndrome be taken completely out of the DSM-V. If this revision is completed, then the condition will be considered under the category of “autism spectrum disorders.” Asperger’s and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified PDD-NOS will no longer be a subcategory of the “autism spectrum disorders” and everyone will fall just in the one category of this. READ MORE...