Screening for autism

Is it significantly different from what pediatricians are already doing?

Part of any well child visit is screening for developmental delays, so one has to wonder what’s different about these recommendations. Are they setting lower limits for what’s abnormal so that those mild cases of autism (which some argue aren’t really autism or even disease) can be treated? If that’s the case, then don’t be surprised when a couple of years from now there’s a upward spike in the number of cases of autism. And don’t blame it on vaccines.

Related posts:

1. Vaccines and autism: The last word
2. Should children with autism be diagnosed at home?
3. MMR vaccine not linked to autism
4. Vaccines do not cause autism in children, whether or not they have inborn errors of metabolism
5. Autism rift
6. The challenging diagnosis of autism
7. Autism: "Thinking like an animal"

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