CDC: Children diagnosed with autism on the rise

Hispanic children in the United States have the most diagnoses of autism

For the first time, autism is diagnosed more frequently in Hispanic and African-American children than in white children in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Thursday. According to another study published in January in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), on a national scale, autistic Hispanic children also had significant disparities in access to resources for autism compared to …

CDC: Children diagnosed with autism on the rise

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A new report by the Centers for Disease Control shows an increase in the number of children being diagnosed with autism. The study also reveals the rate of autism in minority children is also on the rise and increasing quickly. In 2020, the year of the latest data, one out of […]