Lois Hoskins, Chair Martha Craft-Rosenberg Anne Woodtli Barbara Vassallo Rose Mary Harvey

Judith Warren, Board Liaison

The Taxonomy Committee has had one face-to-face meeting since the 14th conference, held a teleconference, and communicated extensively through e-mail. Our major task was to continue the development of Taxonomy II as presented at the 14th conference. At that time the domains, classes, and approved diagnoses were discussed.

Following the April conference the committee met in July to complete further alterations to the taxonomy before its publication. We refined the definitions of the axes and increased their number to seven. The seven axes in order are the diagnostic ...