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Article: Autism more common than first thought
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- July 9, 2007
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CAMPAIGNERS have urged better care of people with autism after a
new study found the condition could be more common than previously
believed.
Specialists based in Cambridge looked at some 12,000 youngsters at
schools in the area between 2001 and 2004, discovering the incidence
of youngsters with autism and its related conditions was one in 58 -
significantly higher than the accepted level of about one in 100.
The figure would translate to more than 200,000 youngsters
nationwide.
Scientists remain baffled by the causes of autism despite
extensive research.
But the findings of the so-far unpublished study, detailed in The
Observer yesterday, sparked calls for the Government to give people
with ...