Posted on 12/17/2013 1:13:29 PM PST by Theoria
A long-awaited study has confirmed the fears of Somali residents in Minneapolis that their children suffer from higher rates of a disabling form of autism compared with other children there.
The study — by the University of Minnesota, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the research and advocacy group Autism Speaks — found high rates of autism in two populations: About one Somali child in 32 and one white child in 36 in Minneapolis were on the autism spectrum.
The national average is one child in 88, according to Coleen A. Boyle, who directs the C.D.C.’s Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
But the Somali children were less likely than the whites to be “high-functioning” and more likely to have I.Q.s below 70. (The average I.Q. score is 100.)
The study offered no explanation of the statistics.
“We do not know why more Somali and white children were identified,” said Amy S. Hewitt, the project’s primary investigator and director of the University of Minnesota’s Research and Training Center on Community Living. “This project was not designed to answer these questions.”
The results echoed those of a Swedish study published last year finding that children from immigrant families in Stockholm — many of them Somali — were more likely to have autism with intellectual disabilities.
The Minneapolis study also found that Somali children with autism received their diagnoses late. Age 5 was the average, while autism and learning disabilities can be diagnosed as early as age 2, and children get the most benefit from behavioral treatment when it is started early.
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Something in the water in Minneapolis ... or someone in Minneapolis diagnosing "autism spectrum" to make money? What's the school system's additional increment per "exceptional child"?
Curious.
Islam
Now MPLS government schools can cry for even more than $18k/year per kid.
The “white” children too?
For white kids it’s called “ADHD”.
Not a problem. Those savages will probably just behead those defective kids.
The article is about “autism,” not ADD/ADHD.
Actually, I am highly suspicious of anything the CDC decrees. They are historically famous for inflating all sorts of ills - especially those relating to guns, wife beating, guns in the home and childrens’ susceptibility ad nauseum.
It would not surprise me one doggone bit they included a high occurrence of the perceived problem in ‘white’ children just to give the ‘study’ a modicum of credibility.
I hear Somali, and I automatically move to thinking Islam. I cannot be moved from that assumption. In the end, I believe that will be the reason for any out-of-norm finding.
sorry.
forget the ‘sarc’ tag.
ADHD rates are much higher.
Good questions.
Very good questions.
Yeah, I hear ya, infiltration under the guise of refuge&asylum,, yet DHS and CONgre$$ and the State Dept and WH condone an not so silent generation of discontents, willingly allowed to set up a community that supports malcontents elsewhere, nothing new perhaps, tho it is sad to see my native state reduced to a dumping ground and magnet for refugees. Talk about your climate change.
And this is different from typical Islamic behavior how???
Minnesota is also the home of the phrase “Minnesota Nice” referring to the many libs who populate the Twin Cities area. For the libs, every problem is a social problem that needs massive gov. expenditures and understanding of the poor and oppressed. As libs are generally the densest people on the planet, they imported thousands of Somalis hoping to make good, liberal Minnesotans out of them. Instead, the Somalis just added to growing violent crime problem in the Twin Cities and Rochester, Minn.
Are pregnant mothers not going outdoors enough? I mean, if you were Somali and not used to the cold of Minneapolis, maybe they’re staying indoors too much.That could also explain what’s going on in Stockholm.
Somalis figured out that autism means more money.
Inbreeding and maternal drinking while pregnant combination.
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