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A brand new study was released today by Centers for Disease Control pegging the autism rate in the United States at 1 in 44 children, up from 1 in 150 children in 2000 when their complex surveillance system The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network was first instituted. Looked at another way, that means 2.7% of children today have autism, and the rate has grown by 243% since 2000. In the old days, people panicked when they saw a devastating disability amongst our children increase by 243%. But, the CDC isn’t worried, their “Public Health Action” from the study is unfortunately par for the course: The continued increase among children identified with ASD, particularly among non-White children and girls, highlights the need for enhanced infrastructure to provide equitable diagnostic, treatment, and support services for all children with ASD. Any question in the report about WHY the rate has increased so much? Of course not. But, it actually gets worse.

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