Autism Action Network: It Started: DSM5 Used To Revoke Autism Diagnosis

The Autism Action Network reports, in It started: DSM5 used to revoke autism diagnosis,  that the revoking of autism diagnoses under the DSM5 regime and the resulting denial of services and educational placements for people with autism disorders has begun.   Here in Canada the Childrens' Hospital of Eastern Ontario, CHEO, has excluded from its autism early intervention program a child it described as having global developmental delay, the express exclusionary phrase used in the DSM5 Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnostic definition.  Swedo, Lord and company were warned this would happen and stubbornly insisted that their vision of autism be imposed on the lives of children who would have otherwise received DSM-IV autism diagnoses.  Presumably they are happy to see the results of their efforts. It started: DSM5 used to revoke autism diagnosis  Share your story to stop the DSM5  As many of us expected, the new definition of “autism” laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM5) is being used to deny services and educational placements to people with autism. We are receiving more and more reports from around the US (Buffalo, Dallas, Utica, etc.) of schools, Medicaid providers, insurance companies and local government service providers using the DSM5 to deny services to people who have an autism spectrum disorder.  If you are facing difficulties or the loss of services as a result of the DSM5 please le...
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