Time for a national autism strategy
Last week, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention updated its estimate of autism prevalence in the US to 1 in 88 children.
By comparison, this is more children than are affected by diabetes, Aids, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy or Down syndrome combined. The statistics, based on a 2008 snapshot of 14 monitoring sites, represent a 78% increase in autism over the previous five years.
