Thursday, May 14, 2009  The autism recovery story
Joseph said...  Are you familiar with Eaves & Ho (2004)?  Joseph
said...  It's hard to tell from the abstracts; Dr. Fein's work
does not seem to be a follow-up of children first seen when they
were younger, is it?  Where does the 10% recovery rate reported
in the media come from?  Michelle Dawson said...  If you look
around this blog, you will find several mentions of Eaves and Ho
(2004; here, here, here, for example...), a study I read when it
was first published.  To get an idea of what Dr Fein's study
(the one she presented at IMFAR 2009) involves, I suggest
listening to the long, unedited TV interview I linked to in the
original post.  Joseph said...   Thanks for the link. It's not
clear from the interview what the methodology was, but she says
at one point that they looked retrospectively to see if the
children had "really" been autistic, diagnosed by experts, and
so forth.  That would not be an observational study of a group,
some o