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May 2nd, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
Universal screening for autism is recommend by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECM) who have just published a report that found “the average age of diagnosis for those born before 2005 was just under four years old; for those born during or after 2005, it was roughly two-and-a-half years old.”
Maria Valicenti-McDermott, assistant professor at AECM and lead author of the study explained: “Despite data supporting the benefit of earlier therapy for children with autism and ongoing efforts to overcome obstacles to delays in diagnosis, children who are Latino or African-American are still diagnosed later than white children.”
Valicenti-McDermott continued: “It remains unclear at this point whether the significant drop in average age of diagnosis we found was entirely the result of pediatrician universal screening or the effect of the national campaign to increase awareness of ASD in general and the importance of an early diagnosis in particular. But given the undisputed benefit of early identification of autism, sorting out the contribution of universal screening to this pattern will be an important next step to address the concerns of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force regarding the benefits of early screening.”
Meanwhile, researchers at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center have published a study suggesting that children who live in areas where aerial pesticide spraying to kill mosquitoes have a “significantly higher rate of autism” than children in other areas.
Steven Hicks, assistant professor of pediatrics for the MHMC explained: “Preventing mosquito-borne encephalitis is an important task for public health departments. Communities that have pesticide programs to help control the mosquito population might consider ways to reduce child pesticide exposure, including alternative application methods.”
The scientists looked at New York, and ZIP codes where aerial dispersal of parathyroid pesticides are sprayed during summers to maintain control over mosquito populations to reduce the instances of conditions they spread such as equine encephalitis.
The researchers suggested that “communities that have pesticide programs to help control the mosquito population might consider ways to reduce child pesticide exposure, including alternative application methods.”
For example, “children living in a swampy region in central New York were 25 percent more likely to have been diagnosed with autism or general developmental delay”; however the findings “do not prove that aerial pesticides raise the risk of autism”.
The study researchers do not recommend that “cities and state should stop spraying based on this data alone” but rather have this study “replicated in other regions of the country that use similar spraying methods.”
Steven Hicks, assistant professor of pediatrics for the MHMC explained: “Preventing mosquito-borne encephalitis is an important task for public health departments. Communities that have pesticide programs to help control the mosquito population might consider ways to reduce child pesticide exposure, including alternative application methods.”
While pesticides are look at as a suspect in the rising rate of autism in the US, the problems the condition cause for parents can be overwhelming. Now researchers for the Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) have released a report on a bigger problem facing families of autistic children.
Sixty-two percent, or more than 1/3rd of autistic children and teenagers, ages 6 through 17, wander from “safe environments”. In fact, when the numbers are crunched, 33% of autistic children wander “miles away” from home.
However, even the lead authors of this study admit that “the statistics are an underestimate”, because “there are households where kids wandered more than a year ago and that has not been captured by the data.”
Bridget Keily, developmental and behavioral research assistant at CCMC and lead author of this study said : “As the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the United States continues to rise, there is a need to better understand the behaviors that may compromise the safety and well-being of these children.”
The problem with wandering autistic children is that they “don’t have the social skills to check in with their parents, and to have that communication and social bond that most children have when they’re approaching a road or at a park.”
Compounding the problem is that 65% of the children who had run away had experienced close calls with a traffic accident.
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