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Host: Why do pediatricians sometimes delay diagnosis of autism?
Peggy Halliday: I think there are number of reasons that, that happens, pediatricians in some cases do not see a lot of children with autism, so they may not really be sure of what all the signs and symptoms of autism are. Also they see a number of children that have slight delays which turn out to be nothing. That children grow out of the delays and I think pediatricians are reluctant to give an autism diagnosis especially with something that is so -- can be so devastating as the diagnosis of autism if they might be wrong. So, there is that tendency to delay the autism diagnosis, there also is such variability in the ages that children develop that, they may really be unclear about whether the child just simply going to grow out of the delay and move along and develop as he should.
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