When the APA publishes the DSM-5, people who have already met the criteria for autism in the current DSM-IV will not suddenly lose their current diagnosis as some parents have feared, nor will ...

Since every person experiences autism symptoms uniquely, the DSM-5 categorizes a diagnosis of ASD across three levels. Each level is unique in the degree of support a person needs.

The Accelerate, Redesign, and Collaborate (ARC) innovation centre at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center has partnered with ...

The new DSM-5 (the diagnostic manual for clinicians), due for release by the end of 2012, will consolidate all autism-related diagnoses into one. Today, children with autistic spectrum disorders ...

In DSM-5, ASD is a collective condition that reflects severity of symptoms encompassing deficits in social communication and interaction and restricted repetitive behaviors (RRBs), interests, and ...

Using DSM-5 criteria, the prevalence of ASD would be 10.0 per 1,000 children in 2008, compared with the reported prevalence of 11.3 based on DSM-IV-TR criteria, Matthew J. Maenner, PhD, from the ...

By 2013, with the publication of DSM-5, Asperger’s syndrome had been dropped as a category and folded into the more general category of "autism spectrum disorder"; terms such as “level 1 ...

Asperger’s syndrome falls on the low end of the 'autism spectrum'. Until 2013, Asperger’s was diagnosed as a separate disorder. But with the release of the newly revised fifth edition of th e ...