08-19-2005, 09:17 PM
08-20-2005, 02:02 AM
Greetings,
Too much for me to read just at the moment but I get the general idea.
We've been bloody well telling them for ages - maybe now they'll listen.
Too much for me to read just at the moment but I get the general idea.
We've been bloody well telling them for ages - maybe now they'll listen.
08-20-2005, 10:40 AM
Wolfy Wrote:
We've been bloody well telling them for ages - maybe now they'll listen.
If you really want to know, you can ask - and possiby try tp answer - the question about to whom they listen. The article didnīt exactly quote AFF. In order to possibly have in an impact in the future, it would help knowing who shapes opinions in that way.
08-20-2005, 01:13 PM
"One team, however, is ahead of the game. Back in July 1998, Fombonne and Suniti Chakrabarti of the Child Development Centre in Stafford, UK, started screening every child born in a four-year window (1992 to 1995) who lived in a defined area of Staffordshire, 15,500 children in total. As a result, they established baseline figures for autistic spectrum disorders - about 62 per 10,000. Then they did it again, in exactly the same place and exactly the same way, this time with all the children born between 1996 and 1998. In June this year, they reported that the prevalence of autism was unchanged (American Journal of Psychiatry, vol 162, page 1133). "This study suggests that epidemic concerns are unfounded," concludes Fombonne."
That makes roughly 6 in a 1000. A woman came to the chatroom recently and said that 1 in 30 kids are on the autism spectrum, and so that was against it being genetic. She said she was clearly told that by the autistic society. With so much misinformation around, no wonder people get confused.
That makes roughly 6 in a 1000. A woman came to the chatroom recently and said that 1 in 30 kids are on the autism spectrum, and so that was against it being genetic. She said she was clearly told that by the autistic society. With so much misinformation around, no wonder people get confused.
08-20-2005, 01:17 PM
I'm sure I've read much higher estimates of what percentage of the population is autistic, compared to .6%. It's all very confusing.
There was a bit of that article that I found a tad confusing.
There was a bit of that article that I found a tad confusing.
Quote:
In recognition of this ambiguity, autism is considered part of a continuum within a broader class of so-called "pervasive developmental disorders" (PDDs) - basically any serious abnormality in a child's development. Autim itself is divided into three categories: autistic disorder, Asperger's syndrome .... and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), sometimes called mild or atypical autism. Together these three make up the autistic spectrum disorders.
I always thought the term "PDD" was the same in meaning as "autistic spectrum" but according to this the ASDs are a subset of PDDs. So what are the other PDDs besides ASDs? And what about stuff like Hyperlexia and Rhett's, where do they fit in?
08-20-2005, 01:22 PM
I think 6 in a 1000 is fairly accurate, and the Stafford one was a genuine study, taken twice over time.
08-21-2005, 09:28 AM
I like to add to the confusion by proposing my own unfoudned speculations:
Maybe more and more people get diagnosed Asperger-Syndrom were actually diagnosed Kanner Autism before, but gottheir diagnosis changed when they learned language later on.
Not bad, oh?
Maybe more and more people get diagnosed Asperger-Syndrom were actually diagnosed Kanner Autism before, but gottheir diagnosis changed when they learned language later on.
Not bad, oh?
08-21-2005, 03:29 PM
Attention-tunnel, do you think some people are being diagnosed twice with different autism spectrum conditions (first with autism then later with AS), so are therefore possibly being counted twice in the statistics?
08-21-2005, 05:53 PM
Lili Marlene Wrote:
Attention-tunnel, do you think some people are being diagnosed twice with different autism spectrum conditions (first with autism then later with AS), so are therefore possibly being counted twice in the statistics?
Yes, but a different ages in their development. For example someone may be coutned as early childhood autism as a child, and as Asperger as an adult. I donīt know how statisticians deal with this possiblity, but who knows if it is happening or not.
08-21-2005, 05:56 PM
My son was first dx as classic autism/lfa and is now classed as hfa/AS after developing langauge skills.
08-22-2005, 01:12 PM
Do you know whether he could have been counted twice in local autism diagnosis statistics?
08-22-2005, 01:13 PM
Absolutely no way that he was counted twice.