1 in 12 boys in California is now considered autistic
A new report from the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network has reignited the national conversation around autism. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that “According to the latest data, the prevalence of autism among eight-year-old children in the United States has climbed to 1 in 31. For boys, the number is even more staggering—1 in 20. In California, where data collection is considered the most accurate, the rate for boys has soared to 1 in 12.5.”These numbers reflect a nearly 500% increase since the ADDM Network began tracking autism in 1990.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now Secretary of the newly created Administration for a Healthy America, called the trend
