Asperger's Syndrome to be Dropped From Psychiatrist's Flagship
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date with KAKE News:  For the first time in nearly two decades,
the nation's leading psychiatric organization is rewriting the
definition of autism.  It's among dozens of changes to the
manual that doctors use to diagnose patients with mental
disorders.  The edit is controversial.  Some parents say it will
jeopardize services for their children, others are hopeful it's
the key that will unlock those services.  The latter position is
the one Wichita's Linda Entriken is taking.  Just a few years
after the mother of five gave birth to her daughter Madison, she
noticed something.  "She would hear what someone would say to
her and then she'd repeat it back to them. Then she'd say
something and repeat it over and over," Entriken said.  Doctors
diagnosed now nine-year-old Madison with Asperger's Syndrome.
Many professionals consider Asperger's a high-functioning form
of autism in which people