Is it true that some ethicities have higher rates of autism than other groups per population capita?

Answer 1

Maybe-and maybe not.

There are some disabilities that are found at different frequencies in different ethnic groups. For example, African-Americans have higher rates of blindness. The cause is known--they have poorer health care, on average, bucause of economic inequalities.

Conditioons like autism (or others like ADD/ADHD, OCD, etc.) are harder to measure. Here's the problem: these disabilities are defined by patterns of behavior--and those vary from one ethnic group to another. There's been a lot of research on this (which, unfortunately, schools are mostly ignoring). But often, children of minority groups are labeled as having oe of these impairments, when in fact they do not.

As a result, you will see higher "rates" of some types of disabilities between ethnic groups in many cases. But--is there a real difference? We simply don't know. Stereotypes about how kids "ought" to behave are playing a role--and that's distorting the picture. In all probablity any diffirences are minimal--or will trace to some socio-economicfactor such as poor health care.

Answer 2

Cant really be said, no, because some countries are more advanced in recognizing and diagnosing it, giving a false higher frequency in those countries.

A lot of countries still have very large agricultural areas and populations and access to sophisticiated medical facilities and knowledge is limited.

I saw a documentary not too long ago that related autism and some other disorders to television. It was interesting, just a theory as most of these things are, but they did make their point sound quite convincing.

Answer 3

To the best of my knowledge, the only significant genetic factor found in autistic individuals is one that is immune system related, and presents as immune component cd4 related part of the major histocompatibility complex. About 90% of autistic boys have it, the rest of the boys and all autistic girls lack this genetic marker. This marker may suggest a flaw in the immune system that greatly increases susceptability to regression. It has nothing to do with race.

There also appears to be a bit of race related operant bias in the diagnosis of autism. Minority cases are often diagnosed at a much later age than cases in the caucasian population

Racial distributions of autism cases appear to correlate to the overall racial distribution within the population. It is more prevalent in industrialized nations, and whether this is the result of environmental factors, of simply due to better diagnosis in industrialized nations is a matter of much debate.

Answer 4

It is true that there is a prevalence of diagnosed autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in Caucasians, but there is some disagreement over whether that is because in other races it is not diagnosed as early and/ or if the common symptoms of ASD are not more valued in some Asian and African cultures.

Some research has demonstrated that Africans whose genetics have not been mixed with Caucasians have no incidence of ASD.

This has also been demonstrated in China.

If there is in fact a gene for ASD or some ASDs it could very easily be a gene that originated in Caucasians.

In the US, current research has found that only 1/6 of the children in special education with ASD are African American

Answer 5

When I was young my disability was not heard about, which is not autism, but this is how knowledge has advances there the years.

Not every where has access to this new information.
So if no one in the area knows about autism they can't diganose the condition.

In some parts of the world, family cann't aford to send all their children to school.

It is unknown what cause autism.

Answer 6

I don't think so.

It's becoming more apparent that autism comes with certain types of air, water, and land pollution. That could easily become confused with heredity, I guess.

Answer 7

yes