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A Positive Association found between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination uptake across the U.S. PopulationA Positive Association found between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination uptake across the U.S. Population is the latest in a long series of studies purporting to show a link between vaccines and the rise in autism prevalence. Like many of these studies, this one has major flaws. There was a time when I would take the effort to go through such studies in detail. There is enough bad in this one to take so long that I just can’t see taking the effort.
They claim that for every 1% increase in vaccination (defined in a very strange way, as you will see) their study shows that the autism rate (defined in an even stranger way) rises 1.7%.
Look at the title again: A Positive Association found between Autism Prevalence and Childhood Vaccination uptake across the U.S. Population
But, strangely enough, the author doesn’t study autism prevalence. Seriously. The author studies “To determine autism prevalence by U.S. state, the number of 8-year old students classified with either (1) autism or (2) speech or language impairments (speech disorders) was divided by the total number of 8-year-olds in the state.”. Yep, the author lumps autism with data. Begs the question: what did the analysis show for autism alone? Could it have shown a protective effect of vaccination. Don’t get me wrong, the study isn’t strong enough to show a real association one way or another, but you really got to ask yourself why the author chose to bury autism this way.
In case you are wondering, the autism+SLI “prevalence” for California was about 5% for 8 year olds/3rd graders in 2001 ( using 488.633 3rd graders )
Here is the abstract:
The reason for the rapid rise of autism in the United States that began in the 1990s is a mystery. Although individuals probably have a genetic predisposition to develop autism, researchers suspect that one or more environmental triggers are also needed. One of those triggers might be the battery of vaccinations that young children receive. Using regression analysis and controlling for family income and ethnicity, the relationship between the proportion of children who received the recommended vaccines by age 2 years and the prevalence of autism (AUT) or speech or language impairment (SLI) in each U.S. state from 2001 and 2007 was determined. A positive and statistically significant relationship was found: The higher the proportion of children receiving recommended vaccinations, the higher was the prevalence of . Neither parental behavior nor access to care affected the results, since vaccination proportions were not significantly related (statistically) to any other disability or to the number of pediatricians in a U.S. state. The results suggest that although mercury has been removed from many vaccines, other culprits may link vaccines to autism. Further study into the relationship between vaccines and autism is warranted. from special education numbers. These data are just not reliable for this sort of work. This has been gone over and over. The best discussion of this is from Jim Laidler in 2005.
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They have virtually no asthma, allergies, ADHD, ADD or Autism in their more then 35000 un-vaccinated children. “ Where's the data on how many of their patients have ADD, autism, or the other conditions? Also, I've seen the quoted number of
But who can think straight when everyone else has ADHD? Who has even one more minute to call one more social worker or one more legislative aide to demand one more investigation of one more unspeakable evil? Who has the time when everybody else has
It looks pretty cool in practice, though you probably won't need it per se unless you're one of those ADHD types who can't stand having anything else at all on the screen while you're typing. It's biggest use in my opinion is for editing.
A little ADHD is probably useful, too. The most important ingredient is the lack of fear of making a mistake. If you want to innovate get busy, make mistakes, learn from your mistakes. > Yes, you're right, I remember reading about those ancient sages,
Do they need a prescription sleep aid, or is all that late-night gaming making it hard to sleep? Do they have ADHD, or do most kids IM 50 people while they're doing their homework? The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a report in March on the
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My son who is 2 and a half and has sensory issues has always been on the hyper side. Today though really blew me away. We went out to eat and had to wait for a table but he would not for the life of him sit still while we waited. Yes I know it is normal for a toddler to want to look at everything but for the half an hour we waited her just ran around and around. Smacking into people. I kept trying to sit him down but he would just scream and cry and fight to get down. He thought acts like this a lot when we go out. He does have his good days and bad days with his therapists and is able to sit still for them. They can hold his attention pretty well though OT and PT are pretty much play time. No he doesn't play with the same toy at all. I don't really buy him many toys anymore because he gets so bored of them. As for TV shows he will watch a couple of minutes before getting bored and wanting to watch something else. Example: Half way though watching Mickey Mouse he will ask to watch Thomas. As for diagnosing a 2.5 year old, I think most psychologists would be hesitant without a pressing reason, especially since there is such a wide variance of normal in attention in kids that age. That isn't even addressing the existing issues your son has and I agree with others that it could very well have been sensory seeking. I personally have ADHD and I'm pretty sure my two year old is neurotypical, but there are definitely times he cannot handle waiting for a table and I have to remove him from the situation. Obviously I'm not sure exactly what you experienced, but I know very few two year olds who can just sit still with out diversion.
My son was diagnosed by a pediatric neuropsychologist, at the age of 5. He told me he basically never gives a diagnosis under age 5 and even then it is early because many of the behaviors can be typical and the child outgrows them. I probably wouldn't trust a doctor who would diagnose a two year old. You also have to consider what you would even DO with a diagnosis once you have it. Are you going to medicate a two year old? If not, a diagnosis may not do much good because school districts have their own criteria to qualify a child for services and a diagnosis alone often does not equal services. Just my experience as a mother and working as a law student in a special education law firm.
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my son is 3.
Word. But they're too lenient with their criteria. People are quick to stereotype the ppl with legit ADD/ADHD vs the fakes
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