Guest guest Posted November 12, 1999 Report Share Posted November 12, 1999 The below websites and numbers are what I believe you are referring to. These are numbers from some individual states in the U.S. concerning the rise in ASD during the past 10 years. Judy STATE STATISTICS http://www.dds.ca.gov/autismreport.cfm CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES SHOWING CHANGE IN THE POPULATION OF PERSONS WITH AUTISM AND PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS. YEARS OF STATISTICS 1987 THROUGH 1998. http://autism.com/ari/editorials/explosion.html http://www.garynull.com/Documents/autism_99.htm http://www.gti.net/truegrit/ The following statistics were taken from an article posted in the Miami Herald: MIAMI HERALD NEWSPAPER IN FLORIDA Published Thursday, October 7, 1999 Autism Statistics for Florida The State Department of Education keeps track of students with autism in grades K-12 and has seen remarkable increases in the past decade: Florida 1988-1989 (481 children) 1998-1999 (3,238 children) 573% increase Article may be found in archives of Newspaper at www.miamiherald.com FEAT DAILY ONLINE NEWSLETTER Families for Early Autism Treatment http://www.feat.org M.I.N.D.: http://mindinstitute.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu letters Editor: FEAT@... Archive: http://www.feat.org/listarchive Update November 3, 1999 text from FEAT DAILY ONLINE NEWSLETTER [This report comes from California Parent Advocate Rick Rollens.] According to the l998 land Special Education Census Data, land has experienced a 513% increase in autism from 1993-1998, while mental retardation increased 13%, specific learning disabilities 7%, and children with multiple disabilities 26%, while the general population of land from 1990-1998 increased 7%. The 513% increase in cases of autism DO NOT include children age birth through three. Over a two-year period, 1996-98, land experienced a 60% increase alone. land officials note that the following counties reported huge increases from 1993-1998, they are: Anne Arundel from 33 to 206 cases, Baltimore City 85 to 323, Baltimore 54 to 306, Frederick 3 to 91, 10 to 169, and Prince 's 19-209. All this should sound familiar to those of you following the similar reports from California on the continuing autism epidemic. How much more evidence is necessary for policy makers to wake up and declare what we all know is happening: this country from coast to coast is in the middle of a growing autism epidemic. " autistic epidemic " From: " josiane herben " <josianeherben@...> I am preparing a summary for our local support group and I would like to include some figures about the rise of the statistics. Some time ago I read on one of the lists I am on (maybe this one) figures that were based upon the year of birth of the patients. I don't remember which area in the world it concerned, I suppose somewhere in the US. The figures were very convincing : for the youngest children the number of diagnoses was much higher. Can someone help me in my search for this information ? Thanking you in advance, Josiane from Belgium Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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