#ASD ACCORDING TO THE DSM 5 MANUAL#

In the draft for DSM-5 - although Swedo and APA officials emphasized that the document has not been finalized yet - the strict age requirement is dropped, instead stating that symptoms must have been present in early childhood.

'I can assure you that it is not true,' she told APA meeting attendees. In fact, she said, the Yale study and hence the Times and other reports messed up.

She was especially incensed by reports in consumer media about the Yale group's study, led by a New York Times article with a 'blaring' headline that read, ' New Definition of Autism May Exclude Many, Study Suggests.' The Yale study, according to the Times article, found that most patients with Asperger's syndrome and about 25% of those with overt autism would not qualify for those diagnoses under DSM-5.īloggers in the autism spectrum community then got the numbers wrong and claimed that DSM-5 would deprive 65% of all autism patients of their diagnoses, 'striking fear in the hearts of families,' Swedo said.

#ASD ACCORDING TO THE DSM 5 MANUAL#

Swedo spoke at the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) annual meeting, in her role as chairperson of the work group developing new diagnostic criteria for neurodevelopmental disorders in DSM-5, the forthcoming fifth edition of the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Asd according to the dsm 5