April Is National Autism Awareness Month!!!!
 

Hey everybody,
I just want to put this out there because it is something that is very close to my heart.

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Autism Facts & Statistics




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• 1 in 150 children

• 4:1 ratio of boys to girls

• 1 in 98 boys

• Fastest growing developmental disability

• 100 billion annual costs

• In ten years the annual costs are projected at 200-400 billion.

• Cost of lifelong care can be reduced by 2/3rds with early intervention

• A family with a child with autism will fund 3 to 5 million dollars of services throughout the lifetime of the child.

• More children will be diagnosed with autism this year than cancer, diabetes, Downs Syndrome and AIDS combined.

• Autism receives less than 5% of the research funding of most of the more prevalent childhood disorders.

• Approximately 1 million individuals in the US have autism

Incidence vs. Private Funding (2007)

• Studies have shown that environmental toxins like mercury and pesticides cause autism.

• There has been no study that has directly linked a pure genetics basis for autism.

• The fastest growing genetic disorders are approximately 1% per 100 years. Autism is much greater than that.

Generation Rescue has helped to recover thousands of children from autism and continues to prove that Autism is Reversible.