CNNW CNN Newsroom March 29, 2012
years ago the centers for disease control and prevention began to estimate the total number of cases in the united states. they based it on account of eight-year-old children with autism in select communities. if you look back in the years 2000 and 2002, it was about 1 child in so with autism. two years later, 1 in 125. then 1 in 110. now the latest report as of 2008, the last time an estimate was performed, 1 in 88 children has autism. that's a 78% increase just over the last decade. the question on a lot of people's minds is why? >> how much of that increase is a result of better t...
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