https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/child ... -research/
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The proportion of studies that include children with a severe form of autism has fallen over the past three decades. Researchers presented the unpublished results today at the 2018 International Society for Autism Research annual meeting in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[...]
There is no standard definition for severe autism, but it often involves a low intelligence quotient (IQ), little or no speech, or difficulty performing everyday tasks. About one in three people with autism has a severe form of the condition.[...]
Only about 66 percent of the studies reported the participants’ IQ scores or diagnoses of intellectual disability, the researchers found; only 42 percent included information about communication abilities and only 22 percent about adaptive behavior. Overall, 51 percent of the studies included children with severe autism.[...]
Bolding is mine.
If one wanted to be rude , they could say that severe autism is overrepresented in research.As stated in an article Mr Siegel had had co authored;
an understanding of ASD's etiology and subtypes can only be as complete as the studied samples are representative.Moreover I have honest concerns about how more representation of autistic severity would work on the peoples best interest.
How exactly could those people give informed consent to participate in your research? And how are the researchers expected to study them, without exposing them to extremely stressfull situations?
Imagine someone getting overwhelmed and thrashing their head whilst in an MRI scanner.
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sorry for butchering the english language and obsessively re-editing my posts.
Last edited by Spyoon on 16 May 2018, 12:55 pm, edited 4 times in total.
16 May 2018, 8:14 am
