According to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, one child in 88 has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
That’s a 23-percent increase since the organization’s last report in
2009. That ratio is even higher in New Jersey, which reported one child
in 49 diagnosed with an ASD.
While it may seem like an epidemic is underway, the CDC
attributes a lot of this increase to improvements in identifying,
diagnosing, and treating children with ASDs. It has absolutely nothing
to do with vaccines, according to the Institute of Medicine, and the CDC
agrees.
Some experts believe that New Jersey ranks so high simply
because its medical and educational personnel are particularly adept at
identification and diagnosis—and because parents in New Jersey are more
aware of ASDs as well.
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