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British medical researchers recently discredited the work of one of their colleagues, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who first made headlines more than a decade ago when he linked cases of autism to some ...
The Lancet paper was a case series of 12 child patients; it reported a proposed "new syndrome" of enterocolitis and regressive autism and associated this with MMR as an "apparent precipitating event". But in fact: Three of nine children reported with regressive autism did not have autism diagnosed at all. Only one child clearly had regressive ...
Accordingly, to date, RPM proponents, by resisting participation in studies, [7] [11] have failed to produce methodologically sound, evidence-based studies demonstrating that RPM provides people with autism and other developmental disabilities a reliable and independent method for communicating.
The RPM measures abstract, general and fluid reasoning, an ability autistic individuals have been presumed to lack. [24] A 2008 study found a similar effect, but to a much lesser degree and only for individuals with IQs less than 85 on the Wechsler scales. [25]
It's hard to estimate the exact damage -- both financial and social -- caused by the 1998 study linking vaccines to autism and the ensuing decline in vaccination rates. But we can try to at least ...
A viral Facebook post about a supposedly missing child is a scam. It turned up on July 15, 2024 claiming the child is from Mishawaka, but similar posts claim he's from cities all over the United ...
Autism and disability researchers and writers have criticized the ideology for potentially reinforcing broader societal discrimination and exclusion. Many noted correlations between autism supremacy and other supremacist ideologies such as eugenics and scientific racism , engrained in common underlying patterns of hierarchical thinking.
At 9 a.m., agents raided a Minneapolis autism center called "Smart Therapy," located in a storefront. A second raid occurred at "Star Autism" in St. Cloud. Both centers are suspected of massive ...