Posted on 03/27/2014 12:44:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
e latest look at autism in the U.S. shows a startling 30 percent jump among 8-year-olds diagnosed with the disorder in a two-year period, to one in every 68 children.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which did the survey, says the numbers almost certainly reflect more awareness and diagnosis of kids who would have been missed in years past. The new estimate for 2010 was a jump from one in 88 children in 2008, the last year for which numbers had been available.
“The number of children diagnosed with autism continues to rise,” the agency’s Dr. Coleen Boyle told reporters.
But the CDC noted that the numbers vary greatly from state to state, and it did not use a nationally representative sample, but a look at groups of children in 11 states.
“The number of children identified with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) ranged from 1 in 175 children in Alabama to 1 in 45 children in New Jersey,” CDC says in its report, based on a survey taken in 2010. The numbers from 2008 were first reported in 2012.
This would work out to about 1.2 million children under 18, Boyle says.
Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a child neurologist at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, who was not involved in the study, said he believed the numbers, but thought they reflected a rise in diagnosis, not "the true prevalence of autism."
“I'm not convinced that the true numbers of autism are rising, rising, rising every time we survey them,” Wiznitzer told NBC News in an interview.
“Over time, more children are being identified,” agreed Dr. Lisa Shulman, a specialist in autism at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York.
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You also might want to ck post 152 before I ask the mods to put it. After all someone reported me and many of my posts were pulled. I’ll send you the wording in a private message. Hopefully hosepipe’s post will be pulled but if not it can stay there for the world to know just how ignorant people can be
I don’t imagine I will get involved in anymore discussions about autism on FR.
Good move.. may be you’re too close to the situation to see it clearly..
Many degrees of autism and some autism IS NOT autism....
mental retardation has many forms....
One form is children spoiled by their parents...
Effects many children for life... (they grow up spoiled)..
And then you have the poor souls that actually MARRY spoiled children WHO GREW UP..
Which can effect those poor souls for decades... if not a lifetime..
But then autism is not always a problem of SPOILING the kid..
Sometimes it’s legit... they are autistic AND SPOILED...
You know............... two(2) problems...
Yes I said I wasn’t going to say any more but there is so much stupidity here that at times it’s not possible.
I hope somebody at least tries to beat the stupid out of you though. It might not be possible but I hope someone gives it their best shot.
Why the mods allow your post in 152 is beyond me. Maybe you donate a lot of money or something.
Hmmm 152... Re:
Spoiled children CAN be called autistic or ADD...
Spanking is the Cure... and revoke privileges....
Soooo............ you do not believe kids can be spoiled.?..
It’s free country kinda sorta... some believe Obama is not as white as he is black..
Spanking works.. has worked for many millennia.... in every culture..
Cultural Child abuse also is present.. but is not “spanking”...
Next a child hits the floor in a tantrum in your grocery store..
I suggest SLAPPING “the MOTHER”...
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