AUTISM PREVALENCE AND COST

  • Autism affects 1 in 50 U.S. kids
  • In the last 2 decades, the autism prevalence has increased by more than 600%
  • Recent research estimates that autism costs the US society $137 billion per year.
  • The cost to society has more than tripled in the past 6 years
  • In 5 years, the annual cost will be $200-400 billion
  • The cost of autism costs of providing care for each person with autism through their lifespan is $2.3 million in the U.S.

CDC Reports 1 in 50 School-Aged Children in U.S. Has Autism

WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- The number of children in the United States with autism spectrum disorder has jumped dramatically since 2007, federal health officials reported Wednesday.

As of 2012, one in 50 kids between the ages of 6 and 17 has some form of autism, compared with one in 88 only five years earlier, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"This estimate was a bit surprising," said report author Stephen Blumberg, a senior scientist at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. "There may be more children with autism spectrum disorder than previously thought."

The average school bus holds about 50 children, so there is typically one child with autism spectrum disorder on every full school bus in America, Blumberg noted.

Michael Rosanoff, associate director for Public Health Research and Scientific Review at Autism Speaks, said that "this study added to the evidence suggesting that we are underestimating the prevalence of autism in the United States."

This report, however, underestimated the real prevalence of autism, Rosanoff said. "It's probably much higher," he said.

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