Prevalence
Many studies have examined possible links between vaccination and increased prevalence of autism. This research has paid particular attention to the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, vaccines containing thimerosal and the total number of vaccines administered during early childhood or any one More...
Why are these numbers going up? Why is there such high variability across ADDM sites?
Improved detection of cases, as a result of better access to services and greater awareness of autism, may be contributing to the increase in prevalence.
Exposure to environmental factors that increase risk for More...
Why are these numbers going up? Why is there such high variability across ADDM sites?
Improved detection of cases, as a result of better access to services and greater awareness of autism, may be contributing to the increase in prevalence.
Exposure to environmental factors that increase risk for More...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its estimate of autism prevalence in the United States to 1 in 88 children (1 in 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls). By comparison, this is more children than are affected by diabetes, AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, muscular More...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its estimate of autism prevalence in the United States to 1 in 88 children (1 in 54 boys and 1 in 252 girls). By comparison, this is more children than are affected by diabetes, AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, muscular More...
Continuing increase in prevalence reaffirms public-health crisis
In March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) significantly revised the estimated prevalence of autism in the United States. The new number – 1 in 88 children.
This represents a 23 percent increase from the More...
The year brought advances in understanding whether and how chemical pollutants affect brain development in ways that may predispose to autism
Most scientists agree that autism involves early changes in brain development. Decades of research have clearly implicated genes that regulate how More...
NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 29, 2012) – Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, today called on the nation’s elected and appointed leaders to immediately develop a new, coordinated strategy to take on a national public health emergency – the More...
NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 29, 2012) – Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization, today called on the nation’s elected and appointed leaders to immediately develop a new, coordinated strategy to take on a national public health emergency – the More...
(NEW YORK, N.Y., November 26, 2012) – Autism Speaks Chief Science Officer Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D. describes how the dramatic progress in autism research has paralleled increased recognition of autism’s prevalence and financial impact in the December issue of the Archives of General More...
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