Did You Know...??

QUESTION: Did You Know?

• · Males are four times more likely to have autism than females.(Schoenstadt)
  
  · Autism is now the sixth most commonly classified disability in the United States (Schoenstadt)
  
  
  · Autism statistics show that 1 in 166 children will be diagnosed with autism.(Johnson)
  
  · if 4 million children are born in the United States every year, approximately 24,000 of these children will eventually be diagnosed with autism (Johnson)
  
  
  · 67 children are diagnosed a day. (Johnson)
  
  · up to 500,000 individuals younger than 21 have autism(Johnson)
  
  
  · Autism was added as a special education exceptionality in 1991(Johnson)
• From 1187-1998 there was a 633% increase in Autism (Johnson)