How Psychiatrists Raised Autism Rates to 1 in 45 Children Over 4 Years


Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- autism.cdc.rising.dsm5.rebrand.asd.new.questions.psychiatrist.parents_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
November 13, 2015

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) have questioned why the number of cases of autism in children ages 3 to 17 has climbed by 80% over the last 3 years, and the answer to their question is interesting.

Participants in the study numbered slightly above 11,000. Parents were asked about their children and if they’d been previously diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), or Asperger’s syndrome.

In the end, only 45 children, or 2% of those surveyed, had a child previously diagnosed with autism. And nearly 80 children, or 1.25% of the participating parents, revealed that their children had been diagnosed with autism via previous surveys.

ASD is a catch-all diagnosis for children who are suspected of having social behavior disorders, language disabilities and various other problems that get joined together under the blanket term autism.

From 2001 to 2014, it has been surmised that the rise of autism reflects 1 in 68 children; a number that has caused alarms to go off with school officials, resource health systems and public health agencies.

Benjamin Zablotsky, epidemiologist for NCHS, said that “in previous years some parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder likely reported it as a developmental disability instead of or in addition to autism because it was listed first.”

As the questionnaires changed and the criteria for what constitutes ASD has expanded, more children are being diagnosed with the disease.

Shockingly, by changing the questions to parents, and how the questions are structured, resulted in a considerable spike in ASD diagnosis that has confounded parents and doctors alike.

Michael Rosanoff, director of public health research for Autism Speaks, explained that an estimated “2% of children in the US are living with autism”; however this is reflective of those children who are lucky enough to be diagnosed.

The change in definition of autism resulting in copious amounts of new cases is a well-documented phenomenon.

Back in July of this year, Penn State University (PSU) researchers published a study showing shows that this increase is due to the psychiatric community adding more symptoms to the list of criteria for ASD while still not knowing exactly what causes it.

In fact, it is this shifting perspective of what ASD actually is has directly contributed to the increase in children who have it.

PSU states that there has been an estimated 65% increase in ASD diagnosis; as well as reclassification of previous symptoms that are now considered indicative of autism.

Because of reclassification of symptoms, nearly 60% of 9 year old children in America are now considered autistic.

To see how standards have changed, in a 1990s study out of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) of nearly 500 children living in Utah in the 1980s, 108 children were considered “challenged” which would translate by today’s psychiatric standards as “intellectually disabled”.

Ironically the diagnosis of intellectually disabled has dropped dramatically while the incidents of autism has steadily climbed to incredible heights.

More telling is how if today’s diagnostic standards are applied to the 108 “intellectually disabled children”, 64 of them would be considered autistic.

In 2014, Aarhus University (AU) published a study that revealed how more children are being diagnosed with ASD due to “reporting practices”.

The researchers wrote: “For Danish children born during the study period, 33% of the increase in reported ASD prevalence could be explained by the change in diagnostic criteria alone; 42%, by the inclusion of outpatient contacts alone; and 60%, by the change in diagnostic criteria and the inclusion of outpatient contacts.”

In Denmark, because of changes to “diagnostic criteria” there has been a 60% increase in diagnosis when the researchers analyzed data on 677,915 children born in Demark between 1980 and 1991.

Shockingly, after 1995, it was estimated that 3,956 children were diagnosed with autism “after changes in the diagnostic criteria and inclusion of outpatient diagnoses occurred.”

The CDC stated last year that ASD diagnosis could lowered if new criteria outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM5) were altered.

Most ASD have been combined and renamed social communication disorder (SCD).

SCDs are “ defined as ‘the synergistic emergence of social interaction, social cognition, pragmatics (verbal and nonverbal), and receptive and expressive language processing’.”

Conditions similar may include:

• Autism spectrum disorder
• Specific language impairment
• Learning disabilities
• Language learning disabilities
• Intellectual disabilities
• Developmental disabilities
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Traumatic brain injury

Researchers analyzed autistic cases with the new criteria within the DSM5 and concluded that “the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in 2008 would have been 10 per every 1,000 people compared to the 11.3 per 1,000 people who were diagnosed with the DSM 4 criteria.”

According to this study, 81% of autistic children were misdiagnosed because the DSM4 was used to decipher the disease.

Currently, 28% of children believed to be autistic will not be able to receive benefits from insurance now that the criteria have changed.

The study concludes: “Autism spectrum disorder prevalence estimates will likely be lower under DSM-5 than under DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, although this effect could be tempered by future adaptation of diagnostic practices and documentation of behaviors to fit the new criteria.”





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