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Research by Topic: CDC
Autism Science Foundation Comments on Today’s CDC Data Showing Autism Prevalence Rate Rising to 1 in 54 from 1 in 59
Published March 26, 2020NEW YORK — March 26, 2020 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced that 1 in 54 eight-year old children have been identified with autism, a rise from the 1 in 59 rate announced two years ago. The increased prevalence rate announced today is based on a study of children who […]
Filed under: 1:54, ADDM, CDC, epidemiology, featured, Prevalence, support
Podcast: In partial phrase of the DSM 5
Published May 28, 2018On this week’s podcast, diagnosis with the DSM 5. While much work needs to be done to include individual abilities and disabilities into the DSM5, after the CDC prevalence numbers were published last month, it became clear the old DSM IV was not working. In a replication of a previous finding, it showed that the […]
Filed under: asf, Autism, CDC, Diagnosis, diagnostic categories, DSM, featured, podcast, research
New CDC autism prevalence rate at 1 in 59 children
Published April 26, 2018The 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 […]
Filed under: ADDM, ASD, Autism, CDC, featured, Prevalence, statistics
CDC Study Finds 95% of Children with Autism Have One Comorbidity
Published March 14, 2018A new study by the CDC, including Dr. Matthew Maenner, ASF Grantee ’10, found that 95% of children with autism have at least one psychiatric or medical comorbidity, which may have a role in age of first evaluation—the more comorbid conditions, the earlier the first evaluation for ASD. Read the study here.
Filed under: Autism, CDC, comorbidity, evaluation, featured, Matthew Maenner, Prevalence, research, science
Podcast: What is true for males is not true for females
Published February 26, 2018On this week’s podcast, Dr. Alycia Halladay focuses in on the Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism. Amazingly, fetal testosterone levels are reflected in the length of the 2nd and 4th fingers and can be measured as a reflection of testosterone levels during pregnancy. But what may be true for one sex, may not be […]
Filed under: CDC, Drexel University, featured, finger length, podcast, sex differences, symptoms, Testosterone