CDC: Autism Diagnoses Have Increased by 30%
The number of children diagnosed with autism reached one in 68 in 2010, a 30% increase over 2008 levels, according to a CDC report released Thursday. Coleen Boyle, director of CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, said the increase could result from better identification of autism spectrum disorders.
- "U.S. Autism Rate Surges, CDC Reports" (Bernstein, "To Your Health," Washington Post, 3/27).