Scientists Can Not Determine The Cause Of Autism

Scientists Can Not Determine The Cause Of Autism.
Some children who are diagnosed with autism at an first mature will ultimately shed all signs and symptoms of the ailment as they enter adolescence or young adulthood, a new analysis contends. Whether that happens because of aggressive interventions or whether it boils down to biology and genetics is still unclear, the researchers noted, although experts suspected it is most likely a organization of the two. The finding stems from a methodical analysis of 34 children who were deemed "normal" at the study's start, ignoring having been diagnosed with autism before the age of 5.

So "Generally, autism is looked at as a lifelong disorder," said ponder author Deborah Fein, a professor in the departments of feeling and pediatrics at the University of Connecticut. "The point of this work was really to demonstrate and detail this phenomenon, in which some children can move off the autism spectrum and really go on to function like normal adolescents in all areas, and end up mainstreamed in harmonious classrooms with no one-on-one support.

And "Although we don't know particularly what percent of these kids are capable of this kind of amazing outcome, we do know it's a minority. We're certainly talking about less than 25 percent of those diagnosed with autism at an primitive age. "Certainly all autistic children can get better and broaden with good therapy. But this is not just about good therapy. I've seen thousands of kids who have great analysis but don't reach this result. It's very, very important that parents who don't meditate this outcome not feel as if they did something wrong".

Fein and her colleagues reported the findings of their study, which was supported by the US National Institutes of Health, in the Jan. 15 issuing of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. The 34 individuals then diagnosed with autism (most between the ages of 2 and 4) were ineptly between the ages of 8 and 21 during the study. They were compared to a group of 44 individuals with high-functioning autism and a manage group of 34 "normal" peers.

In-depth blind analysis of each child's real diagnostic report revealed that the now-"optimal outcome" group had, as young children, shown signs of public impairment that was milder than the 44 children who had "high-functioning" autism. As childlike children, the now-optimal group had suffered from equally severe communication impairment and repetitive behaviors as those in the high-functioning group.