Comments on: Why are we seeing more autism?: “Environmental injury” vs. “better diagnosis”

By: donald savitz

donald savitz — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:06:24 +0000

I think that if you have 25000 childern each year sence 1997 with autism and with second side affact of infant mortatily of about of 10900 childern, I would say theat there is a austim epidememic

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The Extraordinary Claim of the Autism Epidemic — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:45:39 +0000

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By: Autism Vox » Autism Vox Top 10 of 2006

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By: Autism Vox » Reading the Fragments: Sappho, Charlie’s Words, and Autism Speaks

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:14:46 +0000

[...] Back to the 24 responses regarding “whether or not there is an autism epidemic” posted on the Autism Speaks website. A number more have been posted arguing for why there is no epidemic, though the current title of the website (Is Autism an Epidemic? Your Emailed Response – Yes, It Is! [my emphasis]) suggests otherwise. The name of each writer is included, though the writer’s personal and/or professional affiliation in regard to autism are not consistently noted. It is also not clear in what way each response has been edited (as my own response was), nor the total number of responses actually received, nor how many arguing that “there is no epidemic” or arguing that “there is an epidemic” were received. If some scholar some generations hence, even hundreds of years hence, even a few millennia, were to read Is Autism an Epidemic? Your Emailed Response – Yes, It Is!, what would she or he think? What gaps or omissions, what insufficiently defined terms, might she wonder about? Why did these people care so much about these terms, “epidemic” and “autism”? What intriguing epistemological questions were these people so caught up in—-what is “better diagnosis“? Were these the only responses sent in to the question in the title—-”Is Autism an Epidemic?”—-and how could they say “Yes, It Is!” when more than a few responses say the opposite? [...]

By: Autism Vox

Autism Vox — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:53:36 +0000

[...] Go here to read Why there’s no autism epidemic, but rather an epistemological epidemic—one involving how we see and know the world—to phrase Allen’s “epidemic of discovery” another way. ASD, Aspergers, autism, autism spectrum disorder, Books, children, epidemic, family, health, literature, memoir, PDD NOS, scienceAdd to: January 15th, 2007 | Permalink | No Comments » [...]

By: mika

mika — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:25:22 +0000

Thank you for clarifing that Kristina…
BY the way I really enjoy and look foward to reading your blog everyday…
Thank You
Mika=)

By: Gerard Petillo

Gerard Petillo — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:57:34 +0000

The fact that everyone (including the scientific community) is talking about this is a good thing. From the scientific standpoint, as more and more research is published, the true hypotheses will stand the test of validity and reproducibility while the false ones will be disproved. This can only bring us closer to solving the puzzle.

Gerard Petillo
Parents of A.N.G.E.L.S.
Bronx N.Y

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:11:55 +0000

Yes, it is a very large, very white, elephant.

In the DSM-IV, a child needs to have “A total of six (or more) items from (1), (2), and (3), with at least two from (1), and one each from (2) and (3)”—(1) being “qualitative impairment in social interaction, (2) being “qualitative impairments in communication,” (3) being “restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities.”

The Unstrange.com website contains the changing DSM criteria here:

http://unstrange.com/dsm1.html

And go here,

http://www.dsm5.org/

on the DSM-V Prelude Project,

and here,

http://dsmivtr.org/

on the DSM-IV-TR (the TR standing for “text revision.”

By: mcewen

mcewen — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:29:00 +0000

I wish I had a scientific frame of mind. As I don’t I can only comment that it reminds me of large white elephants in the room, that no-one likes to mention but no-one can really ignore. Seasonal greetings.

By: mika

mika — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:00:28 +0000

I don’t mean to be off the subject but mabey someone can clarify this.
I went through an intense 80 hour/2week autism workshop in Chico (CA). The Butte County Selpa and ABC agency from Sacramento put it on last summer..
They mentioned that the numbers might be growing due to the expansion of the DMS IV with the “Autism Umbrella”.(”Autism Umbrella, PDD,RETT,etc.) They were saying I believe (correct me if I’m wrong) that children with three or four traits out of the areas defined for Autism in the DMS IV were considered in the spectrum.
I was wondering if anyone else knows about this .. Unfortunatley I don’t have my binder with me from the workshop. They also mentioned that they were going to put a sensory section in the new DSM V.
I’m optimistic to all the possible pieces of the puzzle.