Researchers and clinicians in the field alarmed by agency’s recommendation to clinicians that there is not enough science to promote universal screening
When her son was two,Edie Weber recorded him incessantly stacking VHS tapes, flapping his arms and having staring episodes, and just to prove to doctors that something was improper.
She remembers crying in doctors’ offices,as they told her she was exaggerating his symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder. It wasn’t until he was five that her son was diagnosed and treated.
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Source: theguardian.com