Imagine if this number were anthrax or smallpox cases, what
the reaction
would be
Sheri
Vienna, Virginia http://www.909shot.com
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“Protecting the health and
informed consent rights of children since 1982.”
[This report comes from autism research advocate Rick
Rollens, whose comments follow.]
Based on the most current data report obtained from the
California Department of Developmental Services (DDS), California has just
experienced the largest quarterly increase in the number of new cases of level
one autism in it’s history.
According to DDS, between July 6, 2001, and October 4,
2001, a record number 705 new cases of DSM IV autism entered California’s
developmental services system, bringing the nine month total for 2001 to
2,069....more new cases in the first nine months of 2001 then reported in any
other FULL YEAR on record. As with all of DDS’s autism case growth reporting,
the 705 new cases do not include other autism spectrum disorders such as PDD,
NOS, Asperger’s, etc.
The 2001 Third Quarter report represents: (1) the largest
quarterly increase EVER reported by DDS, (2) constitutes a 54% increase over
the year 2000 Third Quarter report, (3) shows that autism, for the first time,
has now increased from, on average, 7 new children a day entering the system to
8 new children a day, (4) that 708 ADDITIONAL children with autism entered California’s
system during the first nine months of 2001 then did during the first nine
months of 2000, (5) that in October 2000 level one autism accounted for 28% of
the total number of all new intakes (autism, cerebral palsy, mental
retardation, epilepsy, and conditions similar to mental retardation) now in
October 2001 level one autism accounted for 36% of all new intakes, and (6)
that for the third straight quarter, autism has become the number one
disability entering California’s developmental services system.
Third Quarter Reports
1994 310
new cases
1995 120
new cases
1996 216
new cases
1997 252
new cases
1998 388
new cases
1999 490
new cases
2000 457
new cases
*2001 705
new cases
*Note: During this three month period more cases were
added then in any other FULL YEAR between 1969-1994. In 1995, 752 new cases
were added for the entire year.
Applying the year 2000 Fourth Quarter (Oct. 6, 2000 to Jan
4, 2001) figure of 566 new cases to 2001 (a conservative number considering
that so far in 2001 we have exceeded the 2000 first quarter intakes by 68%, the
second quarter by 38%, and third quarter by 54%) one could easily estimate that
when all the numbers are in for 2001...conservatively estimated at 2,635 new
cases....the year 2001 will produce over 250 more cases of level one autism
then ALL the level one cases from 1994, 1995, and 1996 COMBINED!
Looking at what has happened in California since the
release of the California Report produces even more horrifying evidence of the
escalating autism epidemic. The California Report documented a 238% increase in
cases of level one autism over an 11 year period from 1987-1998. Compare that
to the 583% increase in cases of level one autism we have just experienced over
a 2 ¾ year period from 1999-Oct. 2001.
As of October 4, 2001 California had 16,146 persons with
level one (DSM) autism in it’s developmental services system. It took California’s developmental services
system 29 years (1969-1998) to reach 10, 206 cases of level one autism. It has
taken California just 2 ¾ years (1999-Oct. 2001) to add an additional 5,942 new
cases.
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Brief Commentary
How can anyone deny the fact that we are witnessing a
modern day epidemic? I am sure that if these horrifying numbers involved an
infectious disease our public health community and others would have taken
action years ago. For the sake of our children and the thousands of new
children who will soon fall to this devastating disease, it is time for those
who have simply been in denial or who have failed to observe what is happening
in the real world to wake up and start dealing with reality.
My son and the thousands of others like him, along with
the eight new children who were added today and those will be added to
California’s system tomorrow and every day thereafter cannot wait for the “experts”
to discover the truth involving the autism epidemic.
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