Suffering children are not being helped by a wrong-headed diagnostic revolution
When the psychiatrist Leo Kanner first defined autism in 1943, it was estimated that 4 to 5 children per 10,000 were affected by the condition. Today, the Centers for Disease Control puts that number at 1 in 36, or almost one child in every classroom. If any other medical condition—blindness,...
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