This should be tagged “Don’t believe everything you read.” Twenty percent of children have Autism? Well, some folks are saying this is true. According to Susan Brown of NWITIMES.com [NWI Times serves Northwest Indiana (IN, US) and the southeast Chicago (IL, US) suburbs], it’s true. She even says the figure comes from “The largest study of its kind.”
She’s got her facts wrong, wouldn’t you say? So, to what extent should one trust the remainder of the story? It’s a hodge-podge…. Read it yourself. Beyond the typo in the third paragraph (typos are commonplace in my materials, so I’m not casting stones!), you’ll find a few storylines that seem to be run together.
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Do you suppose that Susan Brown (the author) or the editor mixed up autism (1/150 or 0.6%) with dyslexia? Or misread the 1/150 as 1/5?
Could be either, or bad notes, failure in fact checking…I dunno. I left a note in the comments section of the site, as I see you did, too.
Sigh.