Autism is one of the most common learning disabilities worldwide. It is usually detected one the child would reach his/her learning stage, but there may be times that symptoms would surface on a later stage.
Numerous studies have revealed that a child can actually outgrow autism. As per Daily Mail, this however is a controversial study. The website then added that children that were able to outgrow autism appeared to have "milder social difficulties" but they however possess repetitive behavior.
NBC News then added that though autism be common, but it is often "over diagnosed". The mental disorder does cover a wide range of symptoms and behavior which makes it difficult to diagnose.
Stephen Blumberg of the National Center for Health Statistics and colleagues found out through a survey that 4 percent of children are sought after with therapy, or outgrow their symptoms.
Their report that was published in the journal Autism stated that:
"The results of this study suggest that some children with developmental delays, attentional flexibility problems, or other conditions may be receiving provisional yet inaccurate diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder from nonspecialists,"
Their tea then added that:
"Approximately 13 percent of the children ever diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were estimated to have lost the diagnosis, and parents of 74 percent of them believed it was changed due to new information, It is possible this is the result of the high overlap between the symptoms of these disorders,"
This being said, the website added that about 9n percent of children that was originally diagnosed with autism had changed in diagnosis. Most of which got a new diagnosis where in it was changed from autism to ADHD.
The team then added that language delay may seem like autism, and other disabilities may also be diagnosed with autism because services and learning centres are more available in numerous places for children with autism.
