The Increase in Autism Diagnoses: Two Hypotheses
A new study sheds more light on the question of what is causing the recent increase in the rate of diagnosis of autism. Professor Dorothy Bishop from the University of Oxford studied adults who were diagnosed in 1980 with a ...
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Adult Diagnosis
Once an official diagnosis is received, will his high school make concessions for autism when he takes tests? Is it realistic to assume he will be able to complete a college degree? Will an official diagnosis of autism help him receive ...
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Maybe we're all autistic (redux)
The cutoff for being tall or short or having high or low blood pressure is somewhat arbitrary, he said. So is the diagnosis of autism. The measure of autism is usually the inability to cope in the real world, said NYU's Hollander. ...
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Autism epidemic and symptom substitution
In this study, the authors examined 38 adults (age 15 to 31) who had received a diagnosis of language disorder during childhood but not a diagnosis of Autism. The authors were mostly interested in a particular type of language disorder ...
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More Autism Awareness (a film, a study, and a press release)
Autism Diagnosis 15-20 Years Ago... More support, it appears, for the theory that autism cases are not necessarily on the rise over the last 15-20 years, but rather physicians are better trained to diagnose, more services are available ...
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Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now what?
The facts in all seven claims mirror the case just conceded by the government: Normal development followed by vaccination, immediate illness, and rapid decline culminating in an autism diagnosis. 2) With 4900 cases pending, ...
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Getting a diagnosis?
I'm looking to getting a dx very soon. First of all, I'd like to ask a few questions: 1. Do you have to go to a regular psycologist first, or do you go straight to the one who specializes in Asperger's? I live in Atlanta, ...
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The shifting sands of the 'autism epidemic'
It's only a small study, but matches with the findings of previous research that found that while the narrow diagnosis of autism is at less than 0.4% in the UK, the newer, wider definition of the less severe 'autism spectrum' diagnoses, ...
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awaiting diagnosis- general questions.
hi- im mid 30s, and awaiting diagnosis, after researching autism and then aspreger's recently, re something on tv about ultra senativity to light and noise being linked to autism. i have been diagnosed as having a personality disorder- ...
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