US spends 18 times per capita more on autism research than UK

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The US system means the industry staff get paid/promoted/career enhancements effectively for positive outcomes.

Our corrupt SN system doesn't have the same incentives to improve outcomes for children as they move into adult life, so I'm not surprised. In many areas it could be said that the UK approach is currently rewarding failure in many instances.

I'm not too bothered WHO does the research, I'm bothered who takes account of it though.

Our leading guy on the education side never does his own research, just writes papers attempting to discredit anything that threatens the governments status quo.

But then, I guess that is what they pay him for

And even then UK targets a huge % at causes of autism, or drug companies. Hardly any is spent researching the the so call educational interventions inflicted on our children.

What Agnes said. So even if we find out what causes autism (pie in the sky, as I believe it's a group of symptoms with multiple "causes") what do we do with that information. Scare pregnant mothers in the same way that they're scared of Down's Syndrome?

The information is already out there that could improve average outcome for a child diagnosed with ASD tenfold across the nation, without increasing spend per capita by the state from ages 2 years to 18.

The real issue that there are too many vested interests, with their fingers in the pie of the existing status quo to allow that to happen. Too many existing fat cats would lose their fat salaries/perks and pensions. (That's as true for as many individuals in the private sector as it is in the state btw).

I agree completely. The system benefits all the vested interests - those that charge 27k for a Tribunal (as reported recently) and the SEN officers and health professionals pumping out the same immeasurable guff.