The latest survey on childhood autism now estimates that one in 40 children in the United States has the disorder. This represents 2.5 percent of kids age 3 to 17, or 1.5 million individuals. The results of the parental survey were released by Pediatrics, a child-focused medical journal. In contrast, the latest study on autism prevalence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released earlier this year found that one in 59 children have autism. This was based on data from 2014.
The discrepancy in findings may be due to different methods used in each study. The Pediatrics survey was based on data collected in the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health, which relied on parental reporting of the disorder. The survey collected information from 50,000 parents of children under the age of 18, and the Pediatrics study counted all reports of children who had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and currently held that diagnosis.
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