Changes in Autism Diagnostic Criteria
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- Kanner criteria (1956)[1]
- Lack of affective contact; desire for sameness; fascination with
objects; mutism or non-communicative language before 30 months of
age
- Rutter criteria (1978)[2]
- Emphasized delayed and unusual social and language development and
early onset and unusual behaviors
- DSM-III (1980)[3]
- Differentiated autism from schizophrenia (not a psychiatric
disorder, but developmental)
- Concept of “PDD” introduced: infantile autism; childhood onset PDD;
atypical PDD
- DSM-III -R (1987)[4]
- Concept of PDD continued; autism and PDD-NOS defined
- ICD-10 (1992)[5]
- Greatly expanded PDD concept – autism; atypical autism; Rett
syndrome; other childhood disintegrative disorder; overactive
disorder associated with MR and stereotyped movements; Asperger’s
syndrome; other PDDs; PDD, unspecified
- DSM-IV (1994)[6]
and DSM-IV-TR (2000)[7]
- Also expanded PDD concept – autistic disorder; Asperger syndrome;
Rett syndrome; CDD; PDD-NOS
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[1] Eisenberg L., Kanner L. Childhood schizophrenia. Am J
Orthopsychiatry 1956: 26:556-566.
[2] Rutter, M. Diagnosis and definition. In Autism. A reappraisal
of concepts and treatment, (ed. M. Rutter and E. Schopler). Plenum
Press New York, 1978.
[3] American Psychiatric Association. The Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American
Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1980.
[4] American Psychiatric Association. The Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 3rd ed. Revised. Washington,
DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1987.
[5] International Statistical Classification of Diseases and
Related Health Problems. 10th ed. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health
Organization, 1992.
[6] American Psychiatric Association. The Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. Washington, DC:
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1994.
[7] American Psychiatric Association. The Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. Text revision.
Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2000.
Date:
February 02, 2007
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities
