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Recommended Resources

 

 

The following online resources can provide you with more in-depth information about ASD, support services, and your child's rights.

 

  • National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities 

  • National Center for Children with Learning Disabilities

  • American Psychiatric Association

    • Video lecture on changes to ASD in the DSM-5

 

 

American Psychiatric Association (2013). DSM-5 autism spectrum disorder fact sheet

Retrieved from http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Autism%20Spectrum%20Disorder%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

 

Autism Speaks (2013). Answers to frequently asked questions about DSM-5. Retrieved from http://www.autismspeaks.org/dsm-5/faq

 

Center for Disease Control (2012). The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders - autism and developmental disabilities monitoring network, 14 sites, United 

States, 2008. Surveillance Summaries 61(3), 1-19. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html

 

Clay, R. (2013). The next DSM: A look at the major revisions of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, due out next month. Monitor on 

Psychology, 44(4), 26-27. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/04/dsm.aspx

 

Huerta, M., Bishop, S., Duncan, A., Hus, V., & Lord, C. (2012). Application of DSM-5 criteria for autism spectrum disorder to three samples of children with DSM-IV 

diagnoses of pervasive developmental disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(10), 1056-1064. Retrieved from http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/data/Journals/AJP/24998/1056.pdf 

 

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2009. Autism fact sheet, NINDS. NIH Publication No. 09-1877. 

Retrieved from http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm#243513082

 

National Center for Children with Learning Disabilities (2013). Section 504 and IDEA comparison chart. Retrieved from http://www.ncld.org/disability-

advocacy/learn-ld-laws/adaaa-section-504/section-504-idea-comparison-chart

 

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (2012). IDEA—the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Retrieved from http://nichcy.org/laws/idea

 

References

 

Created by Sarah O'Brien, Fall 2013

Applied Developmental Psychology

George Mason University

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