The Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a Press Release today regarding its findings from data collected by the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) network. The report shows no change in the autism spectrum disorder prevalence from the previous report in 2014.
According to Dr. Stuart K. Shapira, chief medical officer for CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities,
The most powerful tool we have right now to make a difference in the lives of children with ASD is early identification.
The CDC has more information at www.cdc.gov/Autism.