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Comment
. 2019 Sep;127(9):94002.
doi: 10.1289/EHP5674. Epub 2019 Sep 3.

Getting the Lay of the Land: Human and Animal Evidence on Environmental Chemicals and Autism

Wendee Nicole
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Getting the Lay of the Land: Human and Animal Evidence on Environmental Chemicals and Autism

Wendee Nicole. Environ Health Perspect. 2019 Sep.
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Future studies would benefit from rigorous reporting of how autism diagnoses are made. But there’s a catch. Autism diagnostic tools make assumptions about what constitutes neurotypical behavior, and sometimes those assumptions are based on the norms of relatively affluent European-American populations. That can limit these tools’ usefulness in diagnosing children from other cultures and socioeconomic groups. Image: © iStockphoto/junce.
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