Study finds no link between autism, environment
January 7th, 2010Autism clusters found in areas with older, white, educated parents
From the Orange County Register Healthy Living blog, National Public Radio:
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, conclude that autism diagnoses are clustered in areas where parents are more likely to have access to professionals who are qualified to make a diagnosis.
“It doesn’t necessarily mean that higher education causes autism,” says Irva Hertz-Picciotto, one of the study’s authors and a researcher at the UC Davis MIND Institute. “It gets you the diagnosis more frequently.”
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