Autism: 1/88

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    "It is unlikely to be a genuine unprecedented increase in autism, rather an institutional use of this condition to allow people to get easier access to resources.
    "This activity ends up trivialising what is a very serious condition for some children."
    Statistics from schools in England shows that in the same five year period that has seen autism rise, there has also been an increase on 15percent in the numbers of children registered as having behavioural, emotional or social difficulties to a total of 158,015.
    It means that in total there are now 701,000 children, almost one in ten schoolchildren, who are classified as having some kind of special needs.

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