Experts are calling a new study on autism one of the most comprehensive to date.
Research published in the Journal of American Psychiatry creates new criteria for diagnosing autism in an effort to simplify a cluster of conditions into one category called “Autism Spectrum Disorder.”
Dr. Catherine Lord of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell & Columbia is one one of the study’s authors.
“One of the reasons we’re trying to do this is to have a single diagnosis so it’s less confusing and has less arbitrary distinctions,” she says.
Doctors evaluated 4,453 autistic children from across the U.S. and Canada. When they applied new criteria, they found that 91 percent qualified for the diagnosis.
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