@realdoll03 There are many issues with it.
I think it never should have been included in autism to begin with. I think it is demonstrable nonsense, that is harmful and discriminatory to view PDA as an ASD. A huge issue, is a lack adequate engagement with Newson's work.
I think it never should have been included in autism to begin with. I think it is demonstrable nonsense, that is harmful and discriminatory to view PDA as an ASD. A huge issue, is a lack adequate engagement with Newson's work.
@realdoll03 I have seen many mental contortions to view PDA as an ASD. Like Pervasive Developmental Disorders are not practiced anymore only ASDs do. Issue there is that Newson's PDDs, are NOT the same as DSM-4 ones.
@realdoll03 PDA not conforming to DSM-4 PDDs understandings were not considered by the committee that set the DSM-5 autism criteria. How PDA has to be autism as it social communication issues and RRBIs.
@realdoll03 No, it does not, one, we can remove social communication issues, as others removed the Developmental Traits. Two, we can create a new diagnostic grouping for PDA to go into, afterall Newson has already done for that PDA herself in 1986 - 1996. 
@realdoll03 If one engages with Newson's work, she consistently argued her PDDs needed to have Coding issues. All she really did was repackage her Pervasive Developmental Coding Disorders group into this diagram.
@realdoll03 I think it very much remains to be seen if PDA even has Coding issues. There are far too many issues with the assumption there are Coding issues in PDA.
@realdoll03 Where am I going with this. Simple, it is a fallacious argument, to claim PDA has to be autism, because it was viewed a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and it does not account for many different things.
@realdoll03 I set out the main reasons we cannot assume PDA is autism from Newson's work here:
@realdoll03 There are other important factors why PDA is viewed as an ASD, another one is that Wing and Gould prematurely critiqued Newson's work in 2002, without apparently properly engaging with it.
@realdoll03 Newson's article was published in 2003. I fully accept that much of Wing and Gould's critique of Newson's work is valid, such as Newson did not validate PDA and that PDA features are not specific to it.
@realdoll03 @threadreaderapp Please could you unroll.
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