Autism affects one in every one hundred people, and these individuals are our friends, our family, our colleagues, our neighbours. And autism doesn't discriminate, it affects all classes and races equally, but what we do know is that autism does affect more boys than girls so that with every one girl diagnosed with autism, three to four boys are diagnosed with autism.
Although there's no cure for autism, early detection and diagnosis leads to early intervention, and the reason why early intervention is so important is because it capitalises on brain plasticity. So the young developing brain is easily changed in very, very early years and in fact the early months of life, so we want to be able to capitalise on this early brain plasticity and try and move the child towards a more typical developmental trajectory. And not only does early intervention improve outcomes for children and lead to better developmental outcomes in the future for them as adults, it actually reduces family stress on the unit as a whole, because parents are able to begin seeking services for themselves and counselling and begin that adjustment period that follows an early diagnosis. And most importantly, we can actually tell parents and inform them, that it's not anything that they are doing that is causing their child to have these developmental difficulties, autism is a neurobiological disorder that is highly heritable. And so heritable, in fact, that siblings have a greatly increased risk of having autism themselves. So, in fact, the recurrence rate for autism in siblings is 20% rather than the 1% prevalence rate in the general population.
Now we know through the literature, that there are early flags of autism, and my research
Autism affects one in every one hundred people, and these individuals are our friends, our family, our colleagues, our neighbours. And autism doesn't discriminate, it affects all classes and races equally, but what we do know is that autism does affect more boys than girls so that with every one girl diagnosed with autism, three to four boys are diagnosed with autism.
Although there's no cure for autism, early detection and diagnosis leads to early intervention, and the reason why early intervention is so important is because it capitalises on brain plasticity. So the young developing brain is easily changed in very, very early years and in fact the early months of life, so we want to be able to capitalise on this early brain plasticity and try and move the child towards a more typical developmental trajectory. And not only does early intervention improve outcomes for children and lead to better developmental outcomes in the future for them as adults, it actually reduces family stress on the unit as a whole, because parents are able to begin seeking services for themselves and counselling and begin that adjustment period that follows an early diagnosis. And most importantly, we can actually tell parents and inform them, that it's not anything that they are doing that is causing their child to have these developmental difficulties, autism is a neurobiological disorder that is highly heritable. And so heritable, in fact, that siblings have a greatly increased risk of having autism themselves. So, in fact, the recurrence rate for autism in siblings is 20% rather than the 1% prevalence rate in the general population.
Now we know through the literature, that there are early flags of autism, and my research
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