Autism Prevalence Slightly Higher in CDC’s ADDM Network — About 1 in 59
About 1 in 59 eight -year-old children in 11 communities across the United States were identified as having autism in 2014, according the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Surveillance Summary published in April 2018.
The data in this report come from CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network – a tracking system that provides estimates of the prevalence and characteristics of autism spectrum disorder among more than 300,000 8-year-old children. ADDM is the largest population-based program to monitor autism and the only autism tracking system that examines health and education records. Read more ›