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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why assume that the shift in labeling from other things to ASD is comprehensively incorrect, or bad?  The history of this field is the slow realization that Kanner was wrong, and autism is not at all rare.  Kids who in past generations would have been labeled as intellectually disabled, or with childhood schizophrenia, are now diagnosed as autistic.  That's not a bad thing, inherently. Nor is it terrible that we now understand that some kids who would have been considered just really weird in my youth actually have mild autism. This is an advance in our understanding, not a collapse of previously coherent and correct categories. [/quote]

If they lump everything together as "autism" then kids won't get the proper help they need.

The idea that Kanner was "wrong" is a fallacy. It's not to say that our understanding of conditions doesn't change, but throwing a lazy label on everybody doesn't get to the bottom of how to treat children -- and prevent autism, which many people want. [/quote]

Even kids who are correctly label as autistic don't all get the same supports/services.  Supports range from self contained classrooms to kids who are completely mainstreamed with supports.   The spectrum is wide ranging in function and needs.

Kanner autism is no longer the only autism there is recognized and calling "autism" a spectrum disorder is not being "lazy" and ultimately helps more kids who absolutely need the supports and services to "access the curriculum".[/quote]

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