The majority of the research has concluded that the DSM-IV provides inadequate criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Asperger’s Disorder. As it stands currently, there is little clinical usefulness to the Asperger’s Disorder diagnosis.
It so happens that my data analyses provided the background for Fred Volkmar and Ami Klin to get the Asperger's diagnosis included in DSM-IV. It sounds like whoever wrote that piece is among those who don't believe that Asperger's is a separate condition from autism.
If you want to see a joke, go back and look at the old DSM-III definition of autism. It had six -- that's right, six -- criteria. That was all.
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