UK’s NHS Report Suggests Autism Increase Due to Oversight?
September 25, 2009
The below is an excerpt from an article our readers may find interesting. You can read the rest of the article by following the link at the end of the excerpt.
NHS Autism Report suggests the increase in autism in recent years was all down to an oversight …
Polly Tommey is the mother of a thirteen year old son with autism. She is also the Editor of www.autismfile.com. In both roles, as a mother speaking with other parents day in, day out, and as a journalist dealing with constantly increasing numbers of calls describing personal crises for the last ten years, she has had direct experience of the increasing pressure being caused by the numbers of people dealing with autism.
Polly, like many others, has also attended conferences, seminars and work shops worldwide for the last decade and has heard endless research reports and debates on what is the cause of the increase in the prevalence of autism in countries across the world. Statistics citing 5 in 10,000 with autism in 1990 increasing to 1 in 100 today have been used by many from all backgrounds. However it ‘appears’ that it was all now a mistake and that there has been no increase at all … the apparent 95% step up was simply down to an oversight, a lack of awareness and non-diagnosis.Autism isn’t a new problem at all, we’ve had the same level all along – and perhaps, if the data is critiqued, it is actually in decline!
Scepticism surrounds the interpretation of this new report … “Why on earth did this ‘ground-breaking’ news get forced up the news bulletins in the way that it did on Monday evening here in the UK?”, asks Polly, “Are we really able to believe all that we hear on such important subjects, or is there a stronger hand with adifferent agenda behind it?”
A review of the detail behind the headlines will enable any objective reader to draw their own conclusions … continue reading here.
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maybe those with aspergers slipped through the net and were not included in statistics, but those with classic autism cannot go unoticed and they are increasing in numbers unless parents were hiding them from schools and health visitors which is highly unlikely