New CDC autism prevalence rate at 1 in 59 children

Published April 26, 2018

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates autism prevalence at 1 in 59 children based on data from the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network – a tracking system that provides estimates of the prevalence and characteristics of autism spectrum disorder among more than 300,000 8-year-old children. The ADDM Network estimates are combined from 11 communities within Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The 11 communities surveyed in this report represent about 8 percent of 8-year-old children in the United States.

You can read more in the official CDC press release on ASF’s website here. You can read the official CDC analysis in a report published today in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Surveillance Summary.

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