Earlier this year, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the DSM-V that introduced new guidelines for diagnosing children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). As you may well be aware, 1 in 88 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with Autisms; this new diagnostic criteria will affect many children and their families. Changes to diagnostic criteria will affect the number of children who could receive services. This is due to the fact that the DSM-V is more restrictive as far as diagnosing. However, there are many children who are also misdiagnosed or mislabeled and this new diagnostic criteria may help reduce those occurrences.
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