Study links autism and preemies

No shortage of articles on autism in the month of April!

 

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/study-links-preemies-with-autism-signs/n20080403174009990013

What do you think is the real reason for the dramatic increase. Our son was not diagnosed until he was almost 2 and did not show any real signs of sutism, although I always had a funny feeling that something was just not right. In my opinion it is directly related to his vaccinations.

I also saw here lately that they, the government, actually admitted that the vaccines led to a child developing autism.

I am curious to hear other peoples opinions on whether some children are born with the disease or they develop it early on in their first year or so.

Personally, I think that soon there will be several "subsets" of children diagnosed with autism. They already classify the children based on number of symptoms, but I think it may go even further to maybe encompass children clearly born with it and regressive type autism, or children who appear to be developing typically and then regress, for whatever reason. Some literature already refers to these two different classifications. And, for children with regressive type, there may be even more classification with regards to potential triggers, or additional diagnoses. But, a few things that I feel are indisputable are: the earlier the diagnosis the better, and quality ABA delivered intensively (1:1 setting with high repetition) along with exposure to neurotypical peer models in a language rich environment for generalization will  help to provide the child with the best possible chance of reaching his potential.