Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its newest estimate of autism prevalence among the nation’s children – with numbers unchanged, at 1 in 68, from two years ago. Based on these results, an estimated 1 to 1.2 million children under the age of 21 have been diagnosed with autism in the United States.
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