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and informed consent rights of children since 1982."
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NVIC Note: This information
comes from Rick Rollens who co-founded FEAT and
the MIND Institute.
Record Autism Continues in
California: New Report
The California Department of
Developmental Services has recently
reported yet another all
time record number of children entering
California's developmental
services system who have received a professional
diagnosis of DSM IV autism,
not including PDD, NOS, Asperger's, or any other
autism spectrum disorder
such as rare genetic diseases like Fragile X.
The most recent quarterly
report from the Department shows that during
the period from April 4 -
July 5, 2002 California added 846 new children
with level one DSM IV autism
to it's system. The 846 new cases represents an
all time record number of
new cases for a quarterly report in the 31 year
history of the system. The
new report represents an 18% increase in new
cases over the same quarter
last year, and has established once again that
autism is the number one
disability entering California's developmental
services system...accounting
for 40% of all the intakes..a percentage that
has rapidly grown over the
years from 3% (prior to 1979-80) to an
unbelievable 40% today.
California is adding on
average, 9 new children a day, seven days a
week. (When I testified
before Congress 3 1/2 years ago in August 1999, we
were adding 5 new kids a
day, seven days a week).
Over the 28 year period from
1971, the first year autism was added to
California's system, to
1999, California had brought in 10,206 cases of
autism into it's system.
During the past 3 1/2 years, 1999 to July, 2002,
California has added an
additional 8,554 new cases, and is now serving
18,460 cases of level one
autism.
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