Study Confirms DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder Excludes Low Functioning, Intellectually Disabled Autistics

The abstract following is for the article  Testing the Construct Validity of Proposed Criteria for DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, authors William P.L. Mandy, D.Clin.Psy., Tony Charman, Ph.D., David H. Skuse, M.D.Accepted 21 October 2011. published online 05 December 2011. The study participants were 708 children and young persons who had mild to severe autistic difficulties. The authors, as I have highlighted in bold in the abstract, concluded that  the two-factor DSM-5 model for the New Autism Spectrum Disorder (three domains become two, APA, DSM-5, ASD Rationale) was superior to the three-factor DSM-IV-TR model. The au

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A New Year With New Challenges Ahead...

Happy New Year friends! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season to end the previous year on a good note and are already embracing 2012 for all the experiences and memories that await you in the new year. As for me, 2011 has certainly been pretty eventful with it's share of ups and downs. Joel and I kicked off a new culinary group geared to moms and kids in the kitchen called, What's Cookin, Mama. Together we had so much fun hosting various food events and kitchen playdates. I also had a blast traveling to Texas and Alaska to work with various food companies including Frito Lay and Copper River Salmon. It was also a great experience to meet and hang

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Το δόγμα του σοκ κόντρα στο πνεύμα της ζωής.

Η τέχνη της ζωής είναι πια αβάστακτη συνήθεια. Καταστάσεις φορείς θανάτου ολόγυρά μας. Έλλειμμα στο όνειρο έλλειμμα και στο θάμμα! Ανεργία Ατεκνία, απαιδεία, εξαπάτηση κατ εξακολούθηση, εγκλήματα χωρίς τιμωρία και διδαχή θρασύτατοι βρυχηθμοί του Νεανταρταλ οι άγνωστες γλώσσες μα εμφανείς , που μας τριγυρίζουν. Όλα τα πεπραγμένα του κοινωνικού γίγνεσθαι το 2011.  Λάθος γιατροί, λάθος συνταγές σε παραδοξολογία θάταν θέμα τύχης οι πληγές να επουλωθούν. Φυγή χωρίς τις μελωδίες της εξοδίου ακολουθίας. Αφήνοντας πίσω κάτι από καλές μέρες αλλά και βαθειά συλλογή και γνώση τολμήστε για τον καινούργιο χρόνο ξέροντας το καλό και το κακό  να διαλέξετ

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Asperger's Spectrum Disorder in the DSM-5: Why the Concealment?

One of the great DSM-5 puzzles to this father of a severely autistic son is the use of the label Autism Spectrum Disorder to describe what appears to be little more than a tweaked version of the DSM-IV's Asperger's Disorder.  The APA's DSM-5 team has replaced Autism with Aspergers, removed the most seriously intellectually disabled to the General Developmental Disorder category and further diluted the requirements for an autism diagnosis. Why not be open and transparent about the Aspergers substitution for Autism and the removal of the intellectually disabled from the Autism category?The APA has purportedly merged the three Pervasive Developmenta

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NowBox–App of The Week

NOWBOX is your personalized TV guide to the best of YouTube videos through your iPad. Connect your iPad through AirPlay and turn your NOWBOX into a continuous video viewing experience on your TV. Subscribe to a multitude of channels and scroll through the channels. Just like a TV guide, except it’s personalized and organized according to your favorite channels. What it is: Sync all your subscribed YouTube channels, Favorites and Watch Later Videos.Experience all your favorite videos via an intuitive navigation. All you have to do is swipe or tap the screen. See what your friends are watching through Facebook and Twitter. · Personalized. NOWBOX lets

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GRAND MARNIER BUNDT WITH CHOCOLATE GANACHE GLAZE

THE YEAR IN PICTURESNew Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.- Hamilton Wright MabieThe fog hangs low and heavy, shrouding the city in an icy white mist. The sky is a now-familiar leaden gray and yet for the manifest moroseness of the weather, there is something so romantic, so palpably mysterious about the gloominess, the whiteness that swallows one up as one steps over the threshold, th

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DFU mode your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

What is iPhone DFU mode? DFU stands for Device Firmware Update. DFU mode is a state that your iPhone is put into where it can interface with iTunes but does not load the iPhone operating system or boot loader, this is what really differs DFU mode from recovery mode. What is the use of DFU Mode? The primary reason to access DFU mode on iPhone is to change the firmware on the device. This can serve to downgrade to a prior iPhone firmware and operating system, or to use a custom firmware that is required for a jailbreak or SIM unlock. For example, if you got iOS Device that is on OS 4 and decided you would rather have a prior version of the firmware on

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Φορολογικά δώρα εκατομμυρίων ευρώ στις Ελβετικές πολυεθνικές από Παπαδήμα-Βενιζέλο

25/12/2011Ελληνοελβετικό σκάνδαλο... παροχών σε πολυεθνικές Του ΝΩΝΤΑ ΧΑΛΔΟΥΠΗ Κολοσσοί όπως η Nestle θα φορολογούνται μόνο με 5% για τα μερίσματα από τις θυγατρικές τους στην Ελλάδα! Μια διακρατική συμφωνία με σκανδαλωδώς ευνοϊκές ρυθμίσεις... παροχών σε πολυεθνικούς κολοσσούς της Ελβετίας, την ώρα που ακόμη και οι αναξιοπαθούντες στην Ελλάδα υποβάλλονται σε σκληρά «χαράτσια», κρύβεται στη σύμβαση αποφυγής διπλής φορολογίας με τους Ελβετούς, την οποία διαπραγματεύτηκε σε αρχικό στάδιο ο Γ. Παπακωνσταντίνου και ολοκλήρωσε, για να τη φέρει στη Βουλή με «οικουμενική» στήριξη, ο Ευ. Βενιζέλος.Η συμφωνία προκάλεσε κοινοβουλευτικές αντιδράσεις και

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