October 15, 2009
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for the official autism prevalence rates here in the United States. Although recent studies have shown that autism is affecting 1% of children in the United States, the official CDC data still sits at 1 in 150. In order to understand how [...]
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October 15, 2009
As parents of children with autism, autistic individuals, or professionals that work in the autism field, we have all undoubtedly heard of one or more of the following autism myths:
Refrigerator mothers
Autism = intellectual disability
Autistics can’t show empathy
Everyone with autism is nonverbal
Helping to dispel these myths is an important part of raising autism awareness.
As autism spectrum [...]
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