Autism "severity" levels are biased & unhelpful, again onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "Although clinicians showed high agreement when determining whether toddlers were autistic, they showed much less agreement when assigning DSM-5-TR severity levels describing the amount of support needed"
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DSM‐5‐TR Severity Levels for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Agreement Between Clinicians Using Telehealth and In‐Person Assessment Procedures
The DSM-5/DSM-5-TR includes clinician-reported severity levels to help individualize autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses. Severity levels for the two core autism domains of social communication ...