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Offline BOTHY

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Autism Rates Reach Unprecedented Highs In USA
« on: April 15, 2025, 09:43:15 PM »
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    • Autism Rates Reach Unprecedented Highs: 1 in 12 Boys at Age 4 in California, 1 in 31 Nationally

    By James Lyons-Weiler


    "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its 2025 report from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, and the findings are alarming: autism spectrum disorder (ASD) now affects 1 in 31 American 8-year-olds—the highest rate ever recorded.
    For boys, the numbers are even more staggering: 1 in 20 nationwide, and 1 in 12.5 in California. The report, which tracks children born in 2014, reveals a crisis growing in severity and complexity, yet broadly unacknowledged in the national discourse.
    Autism has become a public health crisis of urgent concern,” the report states plainly. And yet, government agencies have offered no new national action plan, and media coverage remains anemic.


    Rapidly Accelerating Trends

    In just two years, autism prevalence among 8-year-olds rose 17%, from 1 in 36 to 1 in 31. This is not an anomaly. Since the CDC began tracking autism in children born in 1992, prevalence has increased nearly fivefold, defying theories that attribute the rise solely to broader diagnostic criteria or increased awareness."



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    Re: Autism Rates Reach Unprecedented Highs In USA
    « Reply #1 on: April 17, 2025, 10:43:02 AM »
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    • I started teaching (officially) in 1982. I encountered my first autistic student in 1990. Throughout the 1990’s, there were a total of three, maybe four. From 2000-2007, five. 2007-2012, seven. 2013-2015, six, 2016-2017 school year, four, 2018-2020, nine, 2020-2021, until I was fired for refusing Dr. Fauxi’s S&E, a total of seven of 21 students in my combo grade 1-2 class had IEP’s and were supposed to receive special services for ASD, most combined with other diagnoses. 
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