Autism Plus
2014-11-11 15:30:38.50296+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Might be an interesting read, but it's behind a paywall: Autism Plus Versus Autism Pure Christopher Gillberg, Elisabeth Fernell, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders December 2014, Volume 44, Issue 12, pp 3274-3276. From the abstract:
The reported prevalence of autism is going up and up. We propose that some—even much—of the increase in the rate of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is driven by “Autism Plus”. Autism Plus refers to autism with comorbidities (including intellectual developmental disorder, language disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), and this is what is now being diagnosed by clinicians as ASD. In clinical practice, a diagnosis of ASD much more often entails that the child will receive support at school and in the community, which is not the case for other diagnoses. ...
I guess I kind of thought this was already a given.