Autism, learning disability and diagnostic substitution

The findings reported by Cynthia Nevison and Mark Blaxhill [1] represent the source blogging material today. Their quite detailed analysis ...

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Autism in the UK: levelling off?

A short post today based on the paper by Brent Taylor and colleagues * (open-access) adding to the considerable literature on the autism num...

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Canada and the autism prevalence rate continued

So, in my last post  this morning I was talking about the paper by Hélène Ouelette-Kuntz and colleagues * on the autism numbers game in vari...

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Canada and the autism prevalence rate

[Update: 01/07/13: Further discussion on this topic can be found here ]. The autism numbers game has been a long running discussion in many ...

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Assessing changes in autism (Bowie style)

' Ch-ch-ch changes ' is perhaps one of the best Bowie songs (that and ' Starman '). The lyrics ' Time may change me, but...

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Diagnostic substitution and autism prevalence

I don't know if it is still part of the autism debate, but I remember a while back there was a lot of interest in whether or not diagnos...

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