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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:50:20 EST
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- From: Lisa S Lewis <LISAS@PUCC.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: More Autistic Variants Stuff
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:20:04 CST from <GOLEM@UKANVM>
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- On Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:20:04 CST Jim Sinclair said:
- >On Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:27:00 GMT Sternberg, James said:
- >>I am looking forward to more. One thing is still extremely unclear to me
- >>however. What is the relationship between autisic-continuum disorders, SID,
- >>and PPD? I beg that your response does not contain the word "vestibular" :).
- >
- >It's PDD: Pervasive Developmental Disorder. That's the category autism
- >is listed under in DSM-III-R (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the
- >American Psychiatric Association). Autism or Autistic Disorder is the most
- >extreme form of PDD. SID is a symptom that is often (but not always)
- >present in people with pervasive developmental disorders, including autism,
- >but may also occur in people who don't have PDD.
- >
- >JS
-
- I have heard that the DSM IV (due out in February) will be doing away with
- PDD NOS and presenting autism in the form of a continuum. I was told that
- it would be categorized from "borderline" through "profound" though I'm
- not sure about how many categories will fall in between. I assume that lots
- of people who are now called PDD NOS will fall into the borderline, and some
- within the next level (probably "mild autism" or something like that.)
- Lisa
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