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From: Nan Bernstein Ratner
Date: 07 Oct 2010
Time: 10:03:20 -0500
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203
As the author of the initiative, let me say a few words. First, it is NOT a new DSM code, although that may be coming. It is an ICD code (broader, more disorders are covered)change. Stuttering has always been in this chapter (300 series, Mental Disorders). We moved it from its local environment, in the series you saw, to one that is less controversial, in the 315 series, which addresses children's communicative development. In the revision of the DSM-V, coming soon, the terminology in this whole section is being changed to reflect that "Mental Disorders" is an old term with negative connotations. In the meantime, we have moved the "default" code for most of stuttering to 315, in communication, added two new codes for neurogenic stuttering, and left the old code only to be used for what we would generally call "psychogenic stuttering", although that term is also not preferred these days. The two links you post are good summaries of the changes, so I WOULD RECOMMEND PEOPLE LOOK AT THESE LINKS TO SEE THE CHANGES. I can of course continue to clarify questions people might have. We changed the codes to move stuttering out of the negatively-perceived LOCAL sequence in 300, and to add codes that would allow us to track the different forms of stuttering, not previously possible with the single old 307 code. Nan