As a doctor-scientist and head of the Centre d'excellence en troubles envahissants du développement at the Université de Montréal, I would like to take five minutes to defend the idea that, in Canada, we are making a mistake right now by offering services based on diagnosis rather than on the level of suffering and on the level of adaptive deficiency.
There is such a range in the autism spectrum in the DSM-V, which finds that there is a single category, but that there are so many modifiers in the table that providing a single service, specifically the ABA method, based on the diagnosis, makes absolutely no sense.
Furthermore, scientists are quite divided on this matter. But, it seems to me that the way things are currently, it is entirely irresponsible for the Government of Quebec—