Joan Warmbold wrote: > 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? Have you controlled for the fact that children in daycare are much more likely to come to the attention of educational and health professionals than children who are sequestered in the home (which will raise the diagnosis rate, but not the actual incidence)? Have you controlled for all of the many other differences between daycare children and home-raised children (rural/urban, SES, etc.)? Correlation is not causation. > 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. Ditto.
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