Changes In Prevalence Of Parent-Reported Autism Spectrum Disorder In School-Aged U.S. Children: 2007 To 2011–2012

March 25, 2013
The researchers analyzed data from the 2007 and the 2011-12 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), which asks parents if they had ever been told that their children had an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The analysis revealed that in 2012, 2% of children in the United States between the ages of 6 and 17 had been diagnosed with ASD; the resulting prevalence translates to one in every 50 school age children. In 2007, the prevalence was estimated at 1.16%, or one in 86 children. Much of the prevalence increase was attributed to diagnoses of . . .