In many parts of the world- Africa, Eastern Europe, The Caribbean, Southeast Asia, The Middle East- children have autism -but the amount that do are not fully known. And even here in the US, girls and African-American children are often under-diagnosed.
We do know that one out of 150 children have an autism spectrum disorder.
The numbers are drastically up from just 20 years ago.
In 2007, The United Nations General Assembly, seeing the disease as a growing global health crisis declared April 2nd World Autism Awareness Day. Events are being held in many UN Member States.
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