I have been conducting research on how early experiences differ between children who do and do not develop autism. Please understand that this is not an interest in pursuing that dreadful pursuit of "blaming" the parents. But I'm beginning to believe that our intent on totally ignoring early experiences impact on emotional disorders is doing a tremendous disservice to parents in our country. One statistic that I'm discovering is that the rate of autism is far higher in families in which the child is placed in day care with in the first few months of their lives. Shouldn't this be worth sharing? The other statistic that is totally mind-blowing is that the rate of autism throughout our country is 1 out of 166 children but is 1 out of 15,000 within Amish communities. The reasons for such could be multi-faceted and it would take a very thorough and rigorous analysis to determine how their early experiences differ. But certainly worth analysing.
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