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Reply to "CNN report -- Autism: Could high U.S. rate be due to over-diagnosis? "
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not about "curing." Again the CDC data is saying [i]more kids are getting early intervention services[/i]...[Hand smack to head.] [/quote] I don't think anything in the study is linking the results with early intervention services. People may hypothesize. But that wasn't what the study was measuring. The reality is that all children, by their very nature, are in a constant state of development from birth through age 20. You can't therefore assume that, where a kid gets a diagnosis at age 2 for having developmentally lagging behavior, receives therapy and ultimately catches up developmentally by age 16, that the treatment worked. Without a more fulsome study, you have no idea if it was the treatment versus the fact that the kid was just destined to take longer to develop age-appropriate behavior. [/quote]
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