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Autism development may be obscured by parents' memory
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<blockquote data-quote="runawaybunny" data-source="post: 626848" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong><a href="http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/conference-news/2014/international-meeting-for-autism-research-2014/autism-development-may-be-obscured-by-parents-memory" target="_blank">Autism development may be obscured by parents' memory - SFARI</a></strong></p><p></p><p>Parents may notice a loss of skills in their children as it is happening, but do not recall it clearly later on. The unpublished research, presented yesterday at the <a href="http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/conference-news/2014/international-meeting-for-autism-research-2014" target="_blank">2014 International Meeting for Autism Research</a> in Atlanta, hints at a fatal flaw in diagnostic tools for autism that rely on parents’ memory.</p><p></p><p>Regular screening by pediatricians would be a more reliable way to pick up early signs of autism, says <a href="http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/ourteam/faculty/ozonoff.html" target="_blank">Sally Ozonoff</a> vice chair for research in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute, who presented the findings.</p><p></p><p>Autism is usually diagnosed around 2 to 3 years of age, when problems with social skills and language become most apparent. The findings presented at the meeting suggest that most children with autism show a gradual decline in their social skills in their first two years of life, rather than a <a href="http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2012/regression-may-mark-one-third-of-autism-cases" target="_blank">sudden loss of skills</a> at that age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runawaybunny, post: 626848, member: 1"] [B][URL='http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/conference-news/2014/international-meeting-for-autism-research-2014/autism-development-may-be-obscured-by-parents-memory']Autism development may be obscured by parents' memory - SFARI[/URL][/B] Parents may notice a loss of skills in their children as it is happening, but do not recall it clearly later on. The unpublished research, presented yesterday at the [URL='http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/conference-news/2014/international-meeting-for-autism-research-2014']2014 International Meeting for Autism Research[/URL] in Atlanta, hints at a fatal flaw in diagnostic tools for autism that rely on parents’ memory. Regular screening by pediatricians would be a more reliable way to pick up early signs of autism, says [URL='http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/psychiatry/ourteam/faculty/ozonoff.html']Sally Ozonoff[/URL] vice chair for research in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute, who presented the findings. Autism is usually diagnosed around 2 to 3 years of age, when problems with social skills and language become most apparent. The findings presented at the meeting suggest that most children with autism show a gradual decline in their social skills in their first two years of life, rather than a [URL='http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/news/2012/regression-may-mark-one-third-of-autism-cases']sudden loss of skills[/URL] at that age. [/QUOTE]
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