Autism in Norway: The 7-fold increase in Autism linked to Maternal Migration
The Olso to Bergen line is one of Europe’s most beautiful railways I did have another sense of déjà vu, when I read about the big spike in autism in one city in Norway. Norway is a very expensive country, but well worth a visit. We enjoyed it. One of Monty’s former 1:1 assistants emigrated to Norway to work in their excellently funded special needs therapy system. A decade ago, there was a peak in media interest in Somali autism clusters in Sweden, Minneapolis and San Diego. Refugees had been taken to live in far away lands, with very different environmental conditions. They soon started to produce children with a very high incidence of autism. This was a surprise to all the academics and a shock to the parents. The Somali-Swedes even started calling it the Swedish disease, because they had never encountered such children before in Somalia. Swedish study dissects autism risk in immigrants Swedish migration: ...