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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why assume that the shift in labeling from other things to ASD is comprehensively incorrect, or bad?  The history of this field is the slow realization that Kanner was wrong, and autism is not at all rare.  Kids who in past generations would have been labeled as intellectually disabled, or with childhood schizophrenia, are now diagnosed as autistic.  That's not a bad thing, inherently. Nor is it terrible that we now understand that some kids who would have been considered just really weird in my youth actually have mild autism. This is an advance in our understanding, not a collapse of previously coherent and correct categories. [/quote]

If they lump everything together as "autism" then kids won't get the proper help they need.

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No.  It's how the laws for coverage are written.  They get the early intervention services they need; it just may not be autism in the end.

How do you have a SN kid and not understand this?[/quote]

It's because I have a SN kid that I understand this. When my son was under the DD label he got the proper services. When they started trying to label him with autism, then everything derailed quickly. Same exact thing happened to almost all the parents I know in our support groups. [/quote]

School labels are not the same thing as a medical diagnosis.  There are only 13 categories [b]by law[/b] under which you can get an IEP.  Lobby to change the law and stop the pointless bitching about how your kid was given the "wrong label."[/quote]

But this is the point: apparently [b]the CDC numbers are based in a survey[/b] that asks parents if their kid was ever diagnosed with autism. But if these are not actually valid medical disgnoses, just incorrect labels driven by law and policy, that is very very different from some kind of change in actual autism rates. [/quote]

No, the OP quoted a parent survey.  The CDC estimate of 1 in 68 is based on USAGE of early intervention services under the autism label.  All this really means is that more kids are getting access to services early and that early intervention makes a difference.  Not that they're necessarily autistic or more kids actually have autism.

Every time the autism conspirator posts, these same issues are pointed out.  If you really don't understand how the CDC came up with it's number ask your pediatrician, ST or other trusted provider in your kid's life.[/quote]

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