by Pat on Oct 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Filed in Autism Statistics
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.