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re:Parents are worried...
Parents are worried however. No one is expressing a lot of hope that a new definition will make life better for any kids with autism, in fact, a lot of parents are very concerned that getting rid of the label of autism will mean children will lose critical services.
Now Dr. Catherine Lord, one of the experts working on the DSM changes, hopes that wont happen. She was on CBS News on Jan 25 saying, "Families are very, very concerned that their kids are going to lose their diagnosis. It's really important to reassure people that there's no intention that that will happen. ...The intention of the new criteria is to better describe children--and adults--who have autism, Aspergers Syndrome, PDD-NOS, ... We don't want criteria that diagnose everyone as having autism. We want to do a better job of diagnosing the people who do. We're not trying to exclude anyone."
And Lord also announced on CBS that for some kids, autism isnt a lifelong disability. Lord said, 10 to 20 percent outgrow autism--those without other severe problems. That is a stunning claim. I seriously want to see the thousands of kids who outgrew autism, especially kids who were non-verbal and who displayed all the signs of classic autism were so familiar with. I want to see those children today as a typical-acting with no signs of autism.
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