Cracking the enigma: What is PDD-NOS?

I wanted to put up a brief pointer to this thoughtful essay by Jon Brock on PDD-NOS and the revisions to the DSM.

Cracking the enigma: What is PDD-NOS?.

There is certainly a case to be made that children are being over-diagnosed and that the boundaries for autism-related disorders should be brought in. However, there is also a real danger that individuals with severe social and communication difficulties would be excluded from support and interventions designed to improve their social and communication skills. All because they don’t also have RSBs.

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[Les Kyles]

This is good brief on between Asperger's Syndrome. Rett Syndrome. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder and how they are often blanketed under the spectrum.
http://www.dailyrx.com/videos/aspergers-disease-rett-syndrome-and-autism-pdds.html

[Rachel]

After 11 years of being a mother of a child with an autism spectrum disorder (pdd nos as well) I decided to share all the info I gathered in houndreds of hours of reaserch so it can be useful to other parents of children suffering this disorder. My website is Pdd Nos. One of the latest things that I've ben digging into is the "casein and gluten free diet" that claims to help development children's neurological functions. I don't know a lot about it since I just started to put it into practice but I left a post on the subject with the little I know.
Good luck to all the worried mothers :)
Rachel