Guest guest Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 I know a doctor told us that was no longer true and that future literature, etc... would retract the formerly held notion that 75% of Autistic children are mentally retarded. He said it simply is not true and would be rectified. It seems to fit the reality that most of our children were damaged by mercury and regressed. Also, I believe when that pronouncement was made, children diagnosed with Autism were considered a lost cause. There were no intensive therapies, early interventions or alternative medicines and parents were persuaded to institutionalize their children rather than keep them at home. [ ] Re: Is this true??? I think it depends where you draw the lines for definitions for autism and retardation ... It is quite clear that with today's autism being mostly regressive, the children have highyer IQ. children treated successfully biologycally often show gains of 15 points and upwards (some losing Dx completely)- so i would say that this is true for untreated children. I do have a personal suspicion that actually the potential intelligence of a sizeable portion of the current population is above average. maybe someone like Dr Bernard Rimland or other researcher commented about it > > 75 percent of persons with autism are mentally retarded. Less than > 5 > > percent of children with autistic traits have fragile X or some > > other, known chromosomal abnormality > > > > > > http://my.webmd.com/content/article/6/1680_51490 ======================================================= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 My son went from IQ 49 ( 3.5years old) / to IQ 79 in 15 month. One month later he was retested at IQ 89. That was a year ago. If we would have believed the " professionals " he would have been institutionalized. Now at 5.5 years he is a very happy child that talks a lot. The educators are talking about " gifted " while the professional talking about misdiagnosis. There is a big lack of updated information for most of the professionals. A lot of improvements are now possible. Carsten [ ] Re: Is this true??? I think it depends where you draw the lines for definitions for autism and retardation ... It is quite clear that with today's autism being mostly regressive, the children have highyer IQ. children treated successfully biologycally often show gains of 15 points and upwards (some losing Dx completely)- so i would say that this is true for untreated children. I do have a personal suspicion that actually the potential intelligence of a sizeable portion of the current population is above average. maybe someone like Dr Bernard Rimland or other researcher commented about it > > 75 percent of persons with autism are mentally retarded. Less than > 5 > > percent of children with autistic traits have fragile X or some > > other, known chromosomal abnormality > > > > > > http://my.webmd.com/content/article/6/1680_51490 ======================================================= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2004 Report Share Posted March 25, 2004 Does this mean that the third time was the charm with the IQ test? [ ] Re: Is this true??? I think it depends where you draw the lines for definitions for autism and retardation ... It is quite clear that with today's autism being mostly regressive, the children have highyer IQ. children treated successfully biologycally often show gains of 15 points and upwards (some losing Dx completely)- so i would say that this is true for untreated children. I do have a personal suspicion that actually the potential intelligence of a sizeable portion of the current population is above average. maybe someone like Dr Bernard Rimland or other researcher commented about it > > 75 percent of persons with autism are mentally retarded. Less than > 5 > > percent of children with autistic traits have fragile X or some > > other, known chromosomal abnormality > > > > > > http://my.webmd.com/content/article/6/1680_51490 ======================================================= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 26, 2004 Report Share Posted March 26, 2004 He didn't get retested yet. We are involved with a research study from UBC in Canada and he will get tested again next month. But I really don't trust the tests anyway because they are designed mostly for a verbal person and most of our kids have a problem with that. Most professional say that you can't increase the IQ by more than 20 points. There are lots of kids and adults out there with documented larger increases. So I think it is pretty obvious that somebody's " Theory " is wrong. We should not give up hope and instead shoot for the stars. I was told when I ignored all the " good " advice that I was setting myself up for failure & lots of disappointment. I should go through my grieving process and go on with my life. If you take a parents hope away. What is left to motivate you? Carsten [ ] Re: Is this true??? I think it depends where you draw the lines for definitions for autism and retardation ... It is quite clear that with today's autism being mostly regressive, the children have highyer IQ. children treated successfully biologycally often show gains of 15 points and upwards (some losing Dx completely)- so i would say that this is true for untreated children. I do have a personal suspicion that actually the potential intelligence of a sizeable portion of the current population is above average. maybe someone like Dr Bernard Rimland or other researcher commented about it > > 75 percent of persons with autism are mentally retarded. Less than > 5 > > percent of children with autistic traits have fragile X or some > > other, known chromosomal abnormality > > > > > > http://my.webmd.com/content/article/6/1680_51490 ======================================================= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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