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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, you're pathetic and ill-informed, PP.

There are many evidence-based tools for assessing autism.  Of course there are shades of gray.  No one is arguing that.  A test doesn't have to be testing human tissue or performing a brain scan in order to [b]reliable[/b] and [b]evidence based[/b].

Why not read something by Stephen Camarata from 2014?
https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/developmental-disabilities-lab/files/developmental-disabilities-lab/public_files/Publications/Early%20identifi%20cation%20and%20early%20intervention%20in%20autism%20spectrum%20disorders-%20Accurate%20and%20effective.pdf

"However, in clinical practice, autism was often first diagnosed in early school-age or even older children, and toddler or pre-schooler age diagnoses were much rarer. Because of this, there have been ongoing efforts to develop more specific nosology and objective measures to capture the symptomology at earlier and earlier ages (Lord & Jones, 2012; Volkmar, Cohen, & Paul, 1986), including the development and refine- ment of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale (ADOS; Lord, Risi, Lambrecht, Cook, Leventhal, DiLavore, et al., 2000; ADOS-2; Lord, Rutter, DiLavore, Risi, Gotham, & Bishop, 2012). T[b]his, in turn, has led to more systematic diagnostic practice[/b]..."

"Proposed autism guidelines in the DSM-5 (Swedo et al., 2012) may shift inci- dence and eligibility parameters without necessarily seeing a real change in the actual incidence of ASD (see report from the US Centers for Disease Con- trol, 2012)."

"Candidly, [b]there is no doubt in my mind that toddlers with ASD can be reliably identified [/b]and that early intervention is potentially highly effective in reducing long-term ASD symptomology."[/quote]

Well first, thank you for the link -- I had not seen this. I've met personally with Dr. Camarata six times in the past decade, spending a good 10 hours at least one on one with him, and the graphs you pulled out are really cherry-picking what he is saying.  Take a look at this:

"It is clear that those children presenting with full autism symptomology, especially displaying noticeably reduced verbal and 
non-verbal  social  engagement,  are  relatively  easy  to  identify  at  an  early  age,  and  that  the  long-term  
stability for this early identifi cation is relatively high.  However,  there  is  far  less  diagnostic  stability  over  
time for the children who do not display full autism symptomology   and   are   placed   on   the      “ Autism Spectrum ”  based on PDD-NOS diagnosis. Clearly, testing the effectiveness of early intervention requires accurate  early  identifi cation.  [b]At  this  time,  it  is  safe  to say that this can be done more readily in AD but would be more problematic in the PDD-NOS form of ASD. It is also clear that confl ating or pooling AD and PDD-NOS into an  “ ASD ”  treatment group will likely yield high variability, low stability, and potentially uninterpretable or inconclusive results. 
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Oh, honey, read the article.  The quote you gave is referring to the Rondeau et al. (2011) study.[/quote]

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