CDC estimates 1 in 68 school-aged children have autism; no change from previous estimate

[proverbialwisdom]

Source: PR Newswire from Centers for Disease Control

March 31, 2016 1:00 PM EDT

Too soon to say whether autism prevalence stabilizing

ATLANTA, March 31, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An estimated 1 in 68 (14.6 per 1,000) school-aged children have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a CDC report published today in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Surveillance Summary. This report shows essentially no change in ASD prevalence, the proportion of school aged-children with ASD, from the previous report released in 2014. However, it is too soon to know whether ASD prevalence in the United States might be starting to stabilize. CDC will continue tracking ASD prevalence to better understand changes over time.

The data come from CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network – a tracking system that provides estimates of the prevalence and characteristics of ASD among 8-year-old children in 11 communities within Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin. The data in the latest report are for 2012 while the data in the previous 2014 report were from 2010.

Although the average ASD prevalence of the 11 ADDM Network sites combined did not change between 2010 and 2012, ASD prevalence still varied widely between the 11 communities. Differences were seen by geographic region and between sites with different access to data resources.

"What we know for sure is that there are many children living with autism who need services and support, now and as they grow into adolescence and adulthood," said Stuart K. Shapira, MD, PhD, chief medical officer for CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.



Read more: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cdc-estimates-1-in-68-school-aged-children-have-autism-no-change-from-previous-estimate-300244187.html

[EllieBC]

1. Wasn't it in 2013 everything was moved under the ASD umbrella?

My oldest daughter was just diagnosed Sep 2015 as having ASD. She was 5 at the time. She has no cognitive delays whatsoever. Her delays are social and emotional only with auditory sensory issues. The child psychiatrist at Sunnyhill said he would have several years ago diagnosed her as Aspergers but because it's all under one umbrella now, they all just receive the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder regardless of where on the spectrum you fall.

As the spectrum widens and awareness goes up of course there will be more cases or at least no change.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

2. My daughter is the same.

The OP is one of our resident anti-vaxxers. Lots of posts from Age Of Autism. Take ANYTHING they post with a grain of salt (if you don't just flat out ignore it).

[proverbialwisdom]

3. Posting "Study Illuminates Big Performance Gap for Car Headlights" by your logic makes me anti-car?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/study-illuminates-big-performance-gap-car-headlights-38020477

Study Illuminates Big Performance Gap for Car Headlights

By joan lowy, associated press
WASHINGTON — Mar 30, 2016, 12:52 AM ET

There may be a reason why people have trouble seeing while driving at night, and it's not their eyesight. A new rating of the headlights of more than 30 midsized car models gave only one model a grade of "good."

Of the rest, about a third were rated "acceptable," a third "marginal" and a third "poor." The difference between the top- and bottom-rated models for a driver's ability to see down a dark road was substantial, according to the study released Wednesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry-funded organization that evaluates automotive safety.

The LED headlights in the top trim level Toyota Prius V — the only one of 31 models tested to get the "good" rating — were able to illuminate a straight roadway sufficiently to see a pedestrian, bicyclist or obstacle up to 387 feet ahead. At that distance, the vehicle could be traveling up to 70 mph and still have time to stop.

But halogen headlights in the BMW 3 series, the worst-rated ones, were able to illuminate only 128 feet ahead. At that distance, the vehicle couldn't be traveling at more than 35 mph and still have time to stop, according to the study.

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Ridiculous framing, clearly. The OP is a CDC Press Release via PR Newswire.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. No, posting bullshit from Age Of Autism

like you do SO often makes you an anti-vaxxer. You're lapping up and promoting their bullshit.

It offends those of us who actually have children with ASD or are under the spectrum ourselves.

[proverbialwisdom]

7. Hijacking the thread? (nt)

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. Pobrecita. nt

[proverbialwisdom]

12. Let me strongly urge a cessation of misdirection tactics and, instead, your empathy directed HERE.

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2016/03/08/lawmakers-end-monopoly/22006/

Lawmakers Look To End ‘Monopoly’ At Disability Facility
by Christal Hayes, Orlando Sentinel/TNS | March 8, 2016

ORLANDO, Fla. – Paige Elizabeth Lunsford had to be transferred to Carlton Palms Education Center.

The disability center that was treating the 14-year-old girl with autism in South Florida was unable to continue doing so because of the severity of her self-injuring behaviors. Ten days after arriving at the Central Florida facility she was found dead.

Paige is one of many patients that ended up at Carlton Palms, the state’s largest licensed residential and educational center for people with severe disabilities, after being turned away from other care centers. The for-profit facility is the only one in Florida that offers a range of services for children and adults with developmental disabilities who have extreme behaviors.

That’s because a loophole in state law only allows licenses for facilities in business before 1989 to operate. Lawmakers are now challenging the statute and hoping to pave the way for new facilities to open and compete against the center, which received $23.4 million in state funding in 2014-15 to care for Medicaid-eligible wards.

“There is a complete monopoly on care for these disabled patients,” said state Rep. Ray Rodrigues, R-Estero, who sponsored a bill targeting the facility. “My goal is to repeal that statute and open up the process to anyone that wants to apply. It’s all part of the free market, and competition will serve the community, or in this case the patients, better.”

Rodrigues’ legislation, House Bill 4037, would repeal the section of law that requires a facility to have been in business before 1989. It has passed through committees unanimously.

Carlton Palms, which serves 129 adults and 35 children just south of Mount Dora, has been named in nearly 150 abuse or neglect complaints over the past 15 years. The complaints include alleged sex offenses and beatings, a scalding and Paige’s death on July 6, 2013, due to dehydration.

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ORIGINAL: http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-86117095/

...from a Disability Scoop email I just read.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

15. OK? And that has fuck all to do with the price of tea in China, how?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Jury results:

On Thu Mar 31, 2016, 06:44 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

My daughter is the same.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1397815

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Personal attack.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Mar 31, 2016, 06:53 PM, and the Jury voted 3-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
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Explanation: No, saying "take what they post with a grain of salt" is not a "personal attack". And proverbialwisdom is indeed anti-vaccine.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
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Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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[Dr Hobbitstein]

9. #2 nailed it. nt

[EllieBC]

6. I'll keep that in mind!

I have no use for the anti-science anti-vaxxers. They might as well go hang out at the Creation Museum with the fundamentalists

[ffr]

11. Wouldn't both vaxxers & anti-vaxxers positions be based on science?

There's the science behind vaxxers which supports vaccinations. And there's the science behind anti-vaxxers which supports not having vaccinations available, pretty much up until the industrial age. So from that standpoint, both can support their positions based on scientific evidence and the one using long-term scientific data would be the anti-vaxxer position, would it not?

To classify anti-vaxxers into the same category as fundamentalist creationists, would be a fallacy. That proposition does not fit other than by personal opinion, which I recognize is what you're saying.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

13. No, anti-vaxxers aree not based in science.

As a matter of fact, they are decidedly ANTI-science, basing all of their arguments off of a couple discredited studies and a few dangerous whackos who happen to have PhD's.

They are in the same category as creationists. Brainless, dangerous individuals.

[lancer78]

16. and a big-breasted

Former playboy model.

[proverbialwisdom]

19. Tom Brokaw, An American Story, 3/29/16.

http://m.wor710.com/media/play/26838417/

"This is the first of what will become a regular series of American hero stories..."

via HEAR THIS WELL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HearThisWell

[ffr]

10. The radio ads last year said 1 in 110 children had autism

Now it's 1 on 68 and that figure is unchanged?

What We’ve Learned

CDC estimates that about 1 in 68 children has been identified with ASD (or 14.6 per 1,000 8-year-olds). These estimates from the ADDM Network are based on data collected from health and special education records of children living in 11 communities across the United States during 2012. These 11 communities comprised 8.5% of the United States population of 8-year-olds in 2012. Information was collected on children who were 8 years old because previous work has shown that, by this age, most children with ASD have been identified for services.

In 2007, CDC's ADDM Network first reported that about 1 in 150 children had ASD (based on 2002 data from 14 communities). Then, in 2009, the ADDM Network reported that 1 in 110 children had ASD (based on 2006 data from 11 communities). And, in 2012, the ADDM Network reported that 1 in 88 children had ASD (based on 2008 data from 14 communities). In 2014, the ADDM Network reported that about 1 in 68 children had ASD (based on 2010 data from 11 communities). This means that the estimated prevalence of ASD increased roughly 123% during 2002 to 2010. However, the estimated prevalence of ASD stayed about the same between 2010 and 2012..-CDC.GOV

There's a trend and it doesn't appear to be good.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

14. There is no trend.

Autism used to be it's own thing. Now it's an umbrella of quite a few different disorders, referred to as ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). The rate of occurrence hasn't changed. The rate of diagnosis has (due to the change in classification).

[Zira]

17. I call that an epidemic and a national health crisis

Wow.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

18. Nope.

Just a change in classification and diagnosis.