In Tennessee, about 1 in 28 (3.6%) of 4-year-old children and about 1 in 29 (3.4%) of 8-year-old children were identified with autism spectrum disorder by the Tennessee Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) network, have reported an increase in the number of children in Tennessee and the U.S. with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
The findings, published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report series on April 15, document that over 3% of children in the state (1 in 29; 3.4%) and nation (1 in 31; 3.2%) have autism. This represents a doubling of the estimated number of children with autism in Tennessee since the research team first investigated prevalence in Tennessee a decade ago (2014: 1 in 68; 1.5%)…