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A UAMS study has found that 1 in 145 Arkansas children has autism, the fourth highest rate among 14 states participating in a national study.
UAMS' Arkansas data was used as part of the largest-ever U.S. study of autism published Feb. 9 by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study found that about 1 in 150 American children, or 560,000, have autism, making the disorder an "urgent public health issue," said Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, chief of the developmental disabilities branch of the CDC.
The national prevalence of autism prior to the study was thought to be about 1 in 166.
Arkansas' study was conducted by the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), a program of the Department of Pediatrics in the UAMS College of Medicine. The study establishes a baseline so that autism trends can be tracked, said David Deere, director of the UCEDD program.


April 2007

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