The study is particularly encouraging
because autism diagnoses are currently done on children between the ages of two and four, and earlier diagnoses allows for more effective treatment measures.
Not exact matches
This makes differential
diagnosis challenging
because in cases where the SPD is severe, the child may be misdiagnosed with
autism.
Principal investigator Dr. Frank Middleton says that's important
because earlier treatment can help the outcomes of children facing an
autism diagnosis.
Despite its difficulty, improving
diagnosis is key, he notes,
because «the earlier you can diagnose with
autism» the better their final outcome.
Identifying the earliest signs of
autism is important
because it may allow for
diagnosis before behavioural changes appear, leading to earlier intervention and better prospects for a positive outcome.
«It is interesting
because no one on either side of the family has had a
diagnosis of
autism,» Sara Asher says.
My name is Andrew Sansaver and I am writing
because I have 5 year old son who has had a
diagnosis of
Autism since the age of 2.
As an adult, I studied psychology, and I became interested in
autism,
because I felt that if my uncle had been born a generation or so later, that would have been his
diagnosis.
But
because no one really explained to parents exactly what had happened — that the
diagnosis had been completely rewritten — that, you know,
autism by the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s was not your grandfather's
autism, you could say.
Because autism isn't noticable until a child is sufficiently self aware and world engaged (aka terrible twos), and because MMR is usually given at about 18 months, there will always be a strong correlation between MMR and autism dia
Because autism isn't noticable until a child is sufficiently self aware and world engaged (aka terrible twos), and
because MMR is usually given at about 18 months, there will always be a strong correlation between MMR and autism dia
because MMR is usually given at about 18 months, there will always be a strong correlation between MMR and
autism diagnosis.
Parents of children on the
autism spectrum often balk at breaking the news of a
diagnosis to their son or daughter; after all, while they know that they will always love and accept their autistic child
because of, and not in spite of, who he (or she) is, there's no way to be sure that the child will feel the same way.