Just a reminder, most official agencies in the USA and Canada do not require/recognize use of DSM-V. Medicare/Medicaid and Canada Health both use variants of ICD-10, which is more acceptable to LD researchers and advocates. Public schools use the relevant portions of special education law, which is why having a DSM diagnosis is neither a slam dunk for an IEP, nor necessarily an obstacle.

I have a copy of the DSM-5, and those quotes are substantively accurate.


...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...