Dyslexia; News from the web:

Dyslexia will disappear from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to be published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Instead they will include “specific learning disability”.

To not have Dyslexia (and dyscalculia, dysgraphia etc) in this manual will not help the cause to get children the help they need as fast as possible.

There is a petition started on change.org, please go there and sign it.

here is the text:

We find inconceivable that DSM 5 is on the verge of removing dyslexia as a diagnosis. Such an ill-conceived move flies in the face of federal disability laws, and scientific, including neurobiological evidence of the validity of dyslexia. Dyslexia fits a medical model of a disorder and has been known since 1896 and is recognized world-wide as the most common neuropsychiatric disorder. To remove it will disenfranchise those millions of affected children and adults and prevent practicing psychiatrists and other physicians from the ability to diagnose this well-described and well-validated clinical entity. We urge you to make sure that dyslexia is included as a specific diagnosis in DSM 5 and not do harm to individuals who are dyslexic or to the field of psychiatry.

Read all about it HERE

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