Walter Kaufmann
Director of Rett Syndrome Program
Boston Children's Hospital
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Intellectual disability’s introduction in the DSM-5: What’s the impact?
The move to replace ‘mental retardation’ with ‘intellectual disability’ is widely accepted, but little data exist on the impact of this change.
Intellectual disability’s introduction in the DSM-5: What’s the impact?
Intellectual disability’s DSM-5 debut
The newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders relies on intellectual function in daily life, both for diagnosing intellectual disability and for determining its level of severity, says Walter Kaufmann.
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