Comments on: UK Autism Westminster Debate: British MPs focus attention onto Autism http://www.bloggernews.net/15126 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:26:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: tulku http://www.bloggernews.net/15126#comment-2237 tulku Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:29:57 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15126#comment-2237 Brand new study showing that one risk factor for special education in Finland is a Father 40 or older 1: Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2007 Mar 6; [Epub ahead of print]Newborns at risk for special education placement: A population-based study.Mannerkoski MK, Aberg LE, Autti TH, Hoikkala M, Sarna S, Heiskala HJ. Department of Child Neurology, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. OBJECTIVES: To establish the contributions of birth weight (BW), gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and parental age on risks for special education (SE) placements in school-age children. METHODS: A population-based sample of 900 school-age children attending the following full-time SE groups: at level 1, children had isolated neurodevelopmental, physical, or other impairments; at level 2, borderline to mild intellectual disability (ID); and at level 3, moderate to severe ID. Three hundred and one children enrolled in mainstream education formed the control group (level 0). For all children with siblings, we defined familiar forms of learning disorders as having a sibling in one of the SE groupings. We performed our analysis for the entire cohort as well as comparing risk factors within the familial and non-familial types of SE groupings. RESULTS: In multinomial logistic regression analysis, age of father 40 years, low BW ( Brand new study showing that one risk factor for special education in Finland is a Father 40 or older

1: Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2007 Mar 6; [Epub ahead of print]Newborns at risk for special education placement: A population-based study.Mannerkoski MK, Aberg LE, Autti TH, Hoikkala M, Sarna S, Heiskala HJ.
Department of Child Neurology, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.

OBJECTIVES: To establish the contributions of birth weight (BW), gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and parental age on risks for special education (SE) placements in school-age children. METHODS: A population-based sample of 900 school-age children attending the following full-time SE groups: at level 1, children had isolated neurodevelopmental, physical, or other impairments; at level 2, borderline to mild intellectual disability (ID); and at level 3, moderate to severe ID. Three hundred and one children enrolled in mainstream education formed the control group (level 0). For all children with siblings, we defined familiar forms of learning disorders as having a sibling in one of the SE groupings. We performed our analysis for the entire cohort as well as comparing risk factors within the familial and non-familial types of SE groupings. RESULTS: In multinomial logistic regression analysis, age of father 40 years, low BW (

]]> By: tulku http://www.bloggernews.net/15126#comment-2144 tulku Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:57:16 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15126#comment-2144 I hope there will soon be a discussion of a major risk factor for non-familial autism which is the advancing age at which men father babies. I hope there will soon be a discussion of a major risk factor for non-familial autism which is the advancing age at which men father babies.

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