(2017-12-14, 09:48 PM)Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Wrote: Why do you think the number of diagnoses is increasing?
~~ Paul
A large chunk of it is demonstrably due to changes in diagnostic criteria and to the relative importance attached to identifying ASD (as effective treatments became available). Whether there is a true increase in prevalence beyond that seems to still be an open question.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/52af/bf...d706ac.pdf
Linda