by Pat on Oct 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM
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Last week, the journal, Pediatrics, released new statistics compiled by the Center for Disease Control on the prevalence of autism. The rate has gone from 1 in 150 to 1 in 100. This rate is more than double the amount of children diagnosed with autism since 1996. Over the past dozen years, autism has made sad, steady progress from an obscure syndrome to a seemingly ubiquitous developmental disorder.
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by Pat on Oct 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a new study evaluating the number of children in the U.S. who currently have autism spectrum disorders. The prevalence of parent-reported diagnosis of ASD among children in the U.S. for 2007 showed that 1 in 91 children between the ages of 3 and 17 currently carry an ASD diagnosis. For boys, the number was even higher--1 in 58 boys.