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Autism Screening On Obama’s Health Agenda: “Autism screening and funding for treatment of the disease is high on President Barack Obama’s agenda for the nation’s health, and is the only disease or disorder called out on his new website, Whitehouse.gov, taking precedence even over cancer and heart disease.”

(Via ParentDish.)

See, I can agree with President Obama on some things. This is one of them. I have several friends with children who are autistic and I think that more testing needs to be done to help families identify autistic traits earlier in life. What I don’t want to see happen is what’s happened to ADHD diagnosis, where parents and medical professionals are too quick to render a diagnosis that requires medication. I don’t know too much about autism, but I’m hoping it has clearer symptoms and indicators than ADHD.