The AP (3/26, Stobbe) reports that a new CDC report found “autism has grown slightly more common in the U.S., but a gap in diagnosis of white and black kids has disappeared.” According to the report, “About 1 in 54 U.S.
children were identified as having autism in 2016” which is an increase “from 1 in 59 children in 2014, and from 1 in 68 in both 2010 and 2012.” Disability Scoop (3/26, Diament) reports that Stuart Shapira, associate director for science at the CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, said, “Some of the increase in autism prevalence might be due to the way children are identified, diagnosed and receiving services in their communities” and “the increase may also reflect reductions in