In the Spirit Of Autism Awareness Month
Yes, it’s Autism Awareness Month,and Autism Awareness day was April 15, last week.
In this post I am including the most current information and stats on the condition, that is gaining more awareness, daily.
Since my post last year entitled Autism In the News, the topic is still one of controversy, and alarming statistics.
The thing about Autism that I find most baffling, is the odds of autism, and it’s occurrence. Currently, the odds of autism are 1:110 children affected here in the U.S, and 1:88 in the UK, or perhaps lower,just in this last year. The odds of autism, just a year ago were 1:150 children affected. These new statistics imply, that a new case of autism, is diagnosed every 20 minutes or less, somewhere in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »