{"id":1161,"date":"2018-01-05T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2018-01-05T06:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:34:48","slug":"new-study-no-increase-in-the-number-of-autistic-children-in-the-us-in-last-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/01\/05\/new-study-no-increase-in-the-number-of-autistic-children-in-the-us-in-last-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study : No increase in the number of autistic children in the US in last 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a heartening news, the US has seen no rise in the number of kids diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) since the last three years. Before that, the country witnessed a steady increase in the number of autistic kids for about twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrevious surveys have reported a steady increase in ASD prevalence in U.S. children over the past two decades,\u201d a survey conducted through\u00a0Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network revealed. But in recent years, the numbers have hit a \u201cplateau\u201d \u2014 between 2014 and 2016, the estimate of children and adolescents with autism was about 2.4 percent, \u201cwith no statistically significant increase over the three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the causes of the ASD neuro-developmental symptoms, which alter communication abilities and social skills, are still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/no-rise-in-autism-in-us-in-3-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/no-rise-in-autism-in-us-in-3-years\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a heartening news, the US has seen no rise in the number of kids diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) since the last three years. Before that, the country witnessed a steady increase in the number of autistic kids for about twenty years. \u201cPrevious surveys have reported a steady increase in ASD prevalence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}