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photon · 10-09-2009, 12:07 PM

If you talk to professionals about autism or aspergers or ADHD they will themselves admit that it is just a label to identify a set of behaviours. The label is useful to unlock specific kinds of care and help for the parents and children. Otherwise the label really doesn't mean that much, professionals are more focused on dealing with the specifics than they are with the label.

So yeah I could see an "artificial" increase in diagnosis, but it's not really artificial, it's just the system says "we need x, y and z to get this kind of help", and the child needs the help, and the behaviour falls within the definition of the label, so fine, use the label to unlock the help.

10-09-2009, 12:07 PM	#8
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	If you talk to professionals about autism or aspergers or ADHD they will themselves admit that it is just a label to identify a set of behaviours. The label is useful to unlock specific kinds of care and help for the parents and children. Otherwise the label really doesn't mean that much, professionals are more focused on dealing with the specifics than they are with the label. So yeah I could see an "artificial" increase in diagnosis, but it's not really artificial, it's just the system says "we need x, y and z to get this kind of help", and the child needs the help, and the behaviour falls within the definition of the label, so fine, use the label to unlock the help. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.