As the power and recognition of modern psychiatry as a medical field have expanded, so has the way we think about and define different conditions, including autism. The diagnostic criteria for autism have gotten broader, helping it go from a rare disorder to one that affects one in 68 children in just a few decades.
read the full story... (off-site)- Topics:
- Education
- Author:
- Jennifer Sarrett
- Source:
- The Conversation
- Date published:
- Mon 21st Sep, 2015