Dr.SaraPasquali, apediatricianat DukeUniversityMedicalCenterinDurham, North Carolina, whose findings appear in the journalPediatrics, said that the situationraisesethicalconcerns.
"At school, if a kid is a little clumsy or not talking like the others, all of a sudden they are referred to speech therapy or early intervention, " says Michel Cohen, a pediatrician who runs Tribeca Pediatrics in New York.