Autism Rate Now at One Percent of All US Children?
David KirbyAuthor/Journalist
Posted: August 11, 2009 01:35 PM
First the bad news...
At some point in their lives, 1-in-63 US children (160-per-10,000) will have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis. (if you are a boy, that number is 1-in-38).
The good news...
Out of every 160 children diagnosed with ASD, 60 of them (37.5%) will recover. (hmmm... does diet play a role?)
And the funny news...
Of course there is the camp of people who say that there is no increase in autism, and that "we' are just better at diagnosing it". According to this logic, out of every 140 children who had an ASD in the 1980s, 138 of them went (and continue to go) undiagnosed, uncounted and untreated by medical and educational professionals. Are we really 7,000% better at diagnosing autism?
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1 comments:
I've been reading so much about autism and about the the different views on the links to the vaccines. But are there any reports on children who have autism and have not been vaccinated?
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