Video : Newsy
hat tip Rosa for sending me the link to this video 😉
What to make of the surprising new data
Mary Carmichael in Newsweek looks at the new data has everyone who cares about autism abuzz.
For years the autism community’s most powerful public-relations weapon has been a striking statistic: an estimated 1 in 150 children have the diagnosis. Now it appears that estimate is actually too small. According to two new studies, the number of kids diagnosed with autism or a related disorder in the U.S. is closer to 1 in 100.
In the contentious autism community, two debates are constantly simmering: How many more children actually have autism now than had it in the past? And what are the underlying causes? The new numbers don’t just fail to resolve either of these debates—they turn up the heat on both.
