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>any speech therapist with a long career will likely remark on a local increase of severe autism cases over the last 20-30 yrs. Population growth.
by kgwxd 2y ago
>any speech therapist with a long career will likely remark on a local increase of severe autism cases over the last 20-30 yrs.
Population growth.
- binary132 2y agoare you saying the population of speech therapists is not growing proportionately to the general populace?
- em-bee 2y agoi have no opinion on whether population growth is a factor, but to make an observation of the growth of cases it wouldn't matter because the therapists probably know each other, so having more therapists in a locality would be included in the observation. there are more cases not because more people come to me, but because i know more therapists having cases.
- binary132 2y agothat still sounds explainable by population growth, maybe