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Weekend Reads | The Rise of Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnoses

Summary by southseattleemerald.org
In 1966, it was estimated that 1 in 2,500 people had autism (now referred to as autism spectrum disorder, or ASD). By 1987, it was 1 in 1,400; in 2000, 1 in 150; in 2008, 1 in 88. By 2017, the figure was 1 in 68, and in a new report (this weekend’s read), for children age 8 or younger in the U.S., it’s now about 1 in 33 (or 3%). Trying to understand the reasons for the dramatic increase in autism diagnoses over the past 60 years is a topic of gr…
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