The End of the Asperger's Label

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 6, 2014

Hanna Rosin, national correspondent for The Atlantic, writer for Slate and author of The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, discusses her article about her son's Asperger's diagnosis, and why it was helpful to their family when, right after his diagnosis, Asperger's was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

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