[Note: I am honored to have Kristina Chew, Ph.D. from Autism Vox as a guest poster here today.]
Last month the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) called for universal screening of young children for autism. Many have applauded the new guidelines, while others have cautioned that we may be in danger of over-diagnosing autism in young children. When my now 10 1/2 year old son Charlie was diagnosed with autism in the summer of
1999, the average age of diagnosis was five years old; Charlie was just over two years old at the time and therefore diagnosed quite early—-under the new AAP …read more