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Many of the children now being counted in the autism category would probably have been counted in the mental retardation or learning disabilities categories if they were being labeled 10 years ago instead of today", said researcher Paul Shattuck of the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in a statement. [52]
Autism spectrum disorder spiked 175% among people in the U.S. from 2.3 per 1,000 in 2011 to 6.3 per 1,000 in 2022, researchers found. ... This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Autism ...
Autism rates: In his address to Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump grossly exaggerated the rise in autism prevalence in the US, saying the latest diagnosis rate of 1 in 36 children is up ...
The Rutgers study found that in New York and New Jersey, the share of 8-year-olds diagnosed with autism who don’t have intellectual disabilities rose more sharply than the share of those who do ...
The broader autism phenotype describes people who may not have ASD but do have autistic traits, such as abnormalities in eye contact and stimming. [ 76 ] In 1996, American academic Temple Grandin published Emergence: Labeled Autistic , describing her life experiences as an autistic person.
Authors have identified cases, from long before the term "autism" was created, of people who perhaps today would have been diagnosed as autistic. The Table Talk of Martin Luther, compiled by his note taker, Mathesius, contains the story of a 12-year-old boy who may have been autistic with high support needs. [16]
Many people have heard the term autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder, ... USA TODAY. Super Bowl 59: Which celebrities, big names are expected to attend Sunday's big game? Finance.
There is a contrast between the attitude of people with AS, who typically do not want to be cured and are proud of their identity; and parents of children with AS, who more often seek a "cure" of their children's autism. [169] Some researchers have argued that AS and other autism can be viewed as a different cognitive style, not a disorder ...