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[quote=Anonymous] So, they reworded the survey to make it sound like more children have autism. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/new-survey-finds-1-45-kids-has-autism-n462596 Telling graphs: "Money follows diagnosis. And there's a lot more money that's attached to a diagnosis of autism than there would be to a diagnosis of developmental language disorder or ... a learning disability to give you an example," said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a child neurologist at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland. "And with more money, you can provide more services." Wiznitzer agrees that kids now diagnosed with autism would have had "another label" in the past. "We're just changing a child's diagnosis from, let's say, intellectual disability and mental retardation to autism spectrum disorder," he said. "Certainly one reason for the increase over time is that parents do come seeking the diagnosis," Shulman added. [/quote]
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