More and more studies are being published regarding the dramatic increase in Autism Spectrum Disorder. While there are likely a number of factors contributing to this increase, how much is each factor responsible. Here's a collection of recent articles around the web on this topic:
Clinic Notes from ABA4Autism discusses a study which showed increased diagnosis (i.e. wider spectrum), increase parent awareness, and older parents accounted for half of the increase in autism. What about the other half?
Kidsdata.org looks at a study which tries to understand why special education rates in California have risen from 17,500 with an eligibility of Autism in 2002 to 60,000 in 2010. They acknowledge that Autism and Other Health Impairments (i.e. ADHD, Anxiety) have risen while Specific Learning Disability have decreased, but note that purely a switch in diagnosis does not fully explain the numbers.
Science-Based Medicine looks at study that looked at individuals diagnosed with a developmental language disorder in 1980. The study showed that 25% of those individuals would now meet the criteria for an Autism Spectrum Disorder. But it that enough to explain the increase?
What do you think?
This site is good because they give us a new thing and new ideas and new topic how good all of they are we should appreciate them because of these good thing.
ReplyDeleteHome Security