AAIDD Position on the Draft DSM-5

AAIDD has provided comments to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) on its draft fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual on Mental Disorders (DSM-5).

See the May 16, 2012 letter submitted on behalf of AAIDD, and its associated May 17, 2012 Press Release.

See the February 2010 letter submitted on behalf of AAIDD by the Terminology and Classification Committee, who are also authors of Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports (11th edition).