Statistics/Was another baby

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I read this in the FEAT newsletter several (?) months ago.

www.feat.org I don't remember if it came out of the Bricktownship

survey or not. The article also mentined that if an identical twin

had ASD, the chance of the other having it too was 60%.

> > In a message dated 5/5/2001 3:05:12 AM Eastern

> > Daylight Time,

> > juliem65@y... writes:

> >

> > << I put this posting up yesterday but have had no

> > responses to it. I

> > know for a fact I have read in the past 2 days that

> > chances of having

> > a child with Autism is 1 in 150 and a second child

> > your chances are 1

> > in 20. >>

> >

> >

> > The 1 in 150 is the current rate of autism in Brick

> > twp study. I've never

> > heard nor seen the 1 in 20 chance of a second child

> > being autistic