关于美国的最新调查数据，

Ean妈妈

找不到K妈的原贴了，就这个分享一下，原文：
大家看那个Findding 的第4点，有40%的人能“脱帽”很鼓舞啊，虽然我已经不容易被鼓舞了。

San Diego, CA
October 6th, 2009

Yesterday the Maternal & Child Health Bureau of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), US Department of Health and Human Services released a study evaluating the number of children in the U.S. who currently have an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis, The Prevalence of Parent-Reported Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder among Children in the United States, 2007, published in Pediatrics.

The study evaluated data from a National Survey of Children's Health (NCHS) in which 78,000 U.S. households were surveyed to estimate the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders.  The households were queried if their child (ages 3-17) "currently has autism, Asperger's Disorder, pervasive development disorder, or other autism spectrum disorder." Read the new report online  

Findings:

The NCHS survey estimated the prevalence rate of ASD to currently be 110 per 10,000 which equates to 1 in 91 children ( 1 in 57 boys)  between the ages of 3 and 17.

Previous prevalence data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network reported the average rate of autism among eight-year-olds was 67-per-10,000 in 2000 (the 1992 birth cohort), and 66-per-10,000 in 2002 (the 1994 birth cohort). Data from the NCHS was from the birth cohort born from 1990 to 2004.

For the first time the health survey also asked if the child who was diagnosed with ASD currently has the disorder, and nearly 40% ( 38.2%) responded NO.  This finding supports recent research that children diagnosed with autism can recover from the disorder with appropriate interventions, both medical and behavioral.

Investigators also found that non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic multiracial children had 57% and 42% LOWER odds of having ASD than non-Hispanic white children, and that children whose parents had less than 12 years of education had twice the odds of NOT having an ASD dx child than those with higher education.  Another interesting finding is that those who lived in the Midwest and Northeast had higher odds of having ASD than children in the West. Such demographic and geographic disparities deserve further scrutiny for etiologic risk factors.

When investigators broke the data down a little more by age, the odds of having a child with ASD were 54% greater for ages 6-8 years (birth years 99-01) and 83% greater for 9 to 11 years (birth years 96-98).  Note that the older birth cohort was exposed to larger amounts of ethyl mercury than the younger birth cohort.

美玉

真的吗？

overgame

父母教育程度越高，孩子风险越大。天天在操场上玩篮球做梦当NBA明星的黑人孩子肯定不会得自闭，这倒是真的。

佳佳爸爸

    英文差,看不懂,能否简单翻译一下

马来西亚彤妈

下面引用由overgame发表的内容：

父母教育程度越高，孩子风险越大。天天在操场上玩篮球做梦当NBA明星的黑人孩子肯定不会得自闭，这倒是真的。

我也是…受教育不高，看不懂。也很大？为什么会生出自闭儿？听说高等教育才有。

johnwoo

下面引用由[U]马来西亚彤妈[/U]发表的内容：

我也是…受教育不高，看不懂。也很大？为什么会生出自闭儿？听说高等教育才有。

应该是父母受教育程度高更容易发现子女的自闭症状，高中(12年)以下的发现几率低。只是几率而已，个案说明不了问题。"Dewey defeats Truman"，大概也是这么推断来的。。。

柴火

Ean妈妈好勤奋，老看相关文献呀。

我记得我在自闭症训练机构的时候，我问那个director,会不会有误诊的情况？那个人还肯定地说，就算有孩子以后不符合自闭的诊断标准了，但肯定也有异于常人的问题。可是，在我儿子的一个班里我曾经见过一个孩子是肯定的误诊，也是双语环境，诊断的时候不会说话，半年多以后就特会说了，而且社交也好。所以说，老美还是挺固执的。

聪聪他爹

不对啊~我和老婆都是初中文化~怎么也生出孤独儿呢？难道我们应该上大学？