Autism prevalence among eight-year-old Utah children remains steady at approximately one in 37 (2.7%), according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network in collaboration with several University of Utah Health scientists. This percentage is lower than the overall prevalence identified across all communities where the CDC tracked autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among eight-year-olds in 2022, which was approximately one in 31 (3.2%).
The study, which includes data collected from 16 communities nationwide, reports on the prevalence of ASD among four- and eight-year-olds and appears in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Surveillance Summaries…
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