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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Not many people would choose to become parents of an autistic child. Yet it is happening to more and more of us in our modern world. There is an unmistakable epidemic of autism going on across the globe. If this can possibly be of any comfort for a parent then I would say that you are certainly not alone! Autism used to be a rare disorder so that the majority of doctors never saw it in their practice and most people had never heard of it. Fifteen years ago in western countries the incidence of autism used to be on average one child in 10000. Now according to the UK Department of Health 1 in 166 children in Great Britain are diagnosed with autism. According to the USA Centre for Disease Control (CDC) around 1 out of 150 American children are diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders now and the numbers are growing every day. Similar numbers are reported by the Autism Canada Foundation. A Finnish study published in the European Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2001 volume 9) reported an incidence rate of 1 child in 483 diagnosed autistic in Finland. In Sweden a rate of 1 child in 141 was reported. So what is happening? Why do we have such a dramatic increase in numbers of children falling prey to this terrible disorder deemed incurable by orthodox medicine? Is the reason for this epidemic genetic? The truth is we don’t know! However what we do know is that genetic disorders do not show such a sudden increase in incidence. Genetics just don’t work that way. This kind of increase in new diagnosis of autism cannot be explained by genetics. On the contrary it provides a strong argument to support the statement that genetics may not play an important part in the development of autism after all. Is this epidemic due to better diagnosis? That is what some very well- established British medical experts are trying to tell us. So in effect are they saying that 10 years ago doctors in the UK were so bad at recognising and diagnosing autism that they were missing one child in 166? If that is the case where are all these children today? They would by now be teenagers (LL)