Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Increase in Autism Due Only to Changes in Diagnosis

By Matt Ransford
"There is more evidence this month demonstrating that we are not, in fact, presently suffering through an age of increased incidence of autism, but rather as the definition of autism is refined, we discover individuals who were previously misdiagnosed. A University of Oxford study has followed up with a group of 38 adults who were originally involved in a series of studies on developmental language disorders in the late 80s and 90s. Those who manifest symptoms of the disorders have difficulty with spoken language, a trait also seen in autism. All of the subjects had attended specialized schools and were previously not diagnosed with autism."

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