Black Children Without I/DD Are 30% Less Likely To Be Identified With Autism Compared With White Children

In New Jersey, Black children with autism who did not have a co-occurring intellectual disability were 30% less likely to be identified with autism than white children. The disparity was discovered in an analysis of federal autism surveillance data from 2000 through 2016 on the prevalence of autism among 8-year-olds residing in four New Jersey counties. In this region, the prevalence of autism without intellectual disability increased from 3.8 per 1,000 in 2000 to 18.9 per 1,000 in 2016.
In total, during this period, 4,661 children were identified as having autism. About . . .