Survey Show Autism Has Higher Rate Amongst Children

Recent years have witnessed a steady rise in the number of autistic kids.

Results from the last 10 years have been seeing increases in prevalence rates, and they haven’t yet shown a leveling off, Fitzgerald said. The group has long suggested that US officials have been underestimating the commonness of the condition.

A recent survey has shown just how autism has spiked in the a year ago, increasing from 1 in 68 children to 1 in 45.

“Researchers assessed children with ASD, children with other developmental delays, such as language delays and physical delays, and children from the general population”, the CDC said in a statement.

The CDC estimated that one in 45 American children has an autism spectrum disorder in 2014. But the definition has gradually expanded and now includes milder, related conditions.

The results of the study are in line with previous studies that also try to prove if autism is prevalent way too often and whether it is simply detected easily.

A new survey of parents has revealed the prevalence of autism in children is a lot higher than the official U.S. estimates, providing evidence of a great spike from 2011 to 2014.

The prevalence of intellectual disability did not significantly change and remains at 1.1 percent, and the prevalence of any three of the conditions was constant across all surveys.

The government has a new estimate for autism – 1 in 45 USA children – but other federal calculations say the developmental disorder is less common. Surveyors visit people at home and ask questions about household members of all ages.

Children being diagnosed represented a wide range of incomes.

For example, this survey included names of diagnoses within the spectrum of autism such as pervasive development disorder and Asperger’s, categories meant to help bring back memories of prior diagnosis, said the CDC.

“Treatment may differ or be similar depending on the characteristics observed in each child”.

“As parents, we’re not interested in “1 in 80” or ‘1 in 100.’ We’re interested in our one”, said Alison Singer to the Daily Record.

The 2014 survey found that 2.24 percent of children aged 3 to 17 have autism (that’s about 1 in 45), while 2011-2013 survey data found an average prevalence of 1.25 percent (or 1 in 80). In past surveys, autism was included in a 10-condition checklist that followed a question about developmental delays.

Slightly more than 2 percent of parents answered yes.

The 2014 survey found that the number of parents who categorized a child as having a few “other developmental delay” dropped by more than 26% (from 4.84% in 2011-13 down to 3.57% in 2014).

Another interesting trend revealed by this new research is that the gender gap concerning autism is getting smaller. Many more boys than girls are being diagnosed with autism, but the gap is narrowing somewhat.