1 in every 91 American children
On October 5, 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics' journal Pediatrics published a study titled "Prevalence of Parent-Reported Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children in the US, 2007."
The weighted current ASD point-prevalence was 110 per 10,000.
Autism Speaks have responded to this study. Quoted below is an excerpt. Please visit their website to read more.
Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism science and advocacy organization, today responded to a new study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics' journal Pediatrics that found a parent-reported autism prevalence rate of one in every 91 American children, including one in 58 boys. The most recent ASD prevalence estimate reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2007 was approximately one in 150 (including one in 94 boys), making autism the most prevalent childhood developmental disorder. Autism Speaks said the new findings reinforced the fact that autism is an urgent and growing public health crisis that affects most individuals across their lifespan and demands a commensurate level of action from both the public and private sectors.
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The number is alarming and we wonder what the current prevalence of autism is in the Philippines.
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