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Note from BLFisher:

Rick Rollins, the father of an autistic son and the co-founder of the M.I.N.D. Institute at University of California-Davis, has prepared the following analysis of recent disability statistics from the California Department of Developmental Services. The unprecedented increases in the numbers of autistic children entering state support programs contradict the assertion by public health officials and many autism researchers that autism is based solely on genetics. Unless there has been sudden genetic change occurring in the California population, other scientific explanations for the autism explosion will have to be credibly forwarded by government health officials responsible for protecting the public health and safety.

Autism, once thought to be a rare disorder caused by a “refrigerator mother” and most recently thought to be a rare genetic disease, is now the number one disability entering California’s developmental services system at an alarming and  accelerated rate, surpassing mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and all other conditions similar to mental retardation.  Prior to the autism epidemic, autism had historically accounted for 3% of the intakes into California’s developmental services system. Today, according to the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS), not including PDD, NOS, Asperger’s, or any other autism spectrum disorder, autism accounts for an amazing 37% of new intakes.

According to figures recently released by DDS, California has experienced an all time record number of new cases for a second quarter reporting period in professionally diagnosed cases of level one autism, which again does not include any of the other autism spectrum disorders. The addition of the 664 new children added to the system from April 3 to July 8, 2001 represents the largest number of new cases of autism added to the system during a second quarter reporting period in the 32 year history of California’s developmental services system. The increase represents a 27% increase in the number of new children added to the system over the previous (April to July, 2000) second quarter reporting period.  The most recent numbers continue the onslaught of children diagnosed with “full blown” autism and qualified for services in California at the incredible rate of seven (7) new children a day....seven day’s a week.

Even more horrifying is the fact that through the first SIX MONTHS of 2001, California added more children with level one autism to it’s system then in any other FULL YEAR from 1969 through 1998 !! If this trend continues for the remainder of 2001, California will add over 2,700 new children with autism to it’s system in 2001 alone.....A number that would equal 13.5 years worth of new cases of autism, pre-1979-80, or more new cases of autism then entered the system for all of 1994,1995, and 1996 combined !!

Another tell tale sign of the autism epidemic is the age distribution of autism compared to the other various disability groups represented in California’s system. According to information supplied by DDS, the following information displays in graphic terms the marked differences between autism and the other eligible disabilities for both the percntage of young and old persons in the system. The percentages represent the total number of cases in each disability category:

AGE DISTRIBUTION

Age          AUTISM         MR           CP        EPI

0-13            65%          19%         30%      22%

42 &

Older          4.5%         27%         20%      23%

MR=Mental Retardation

CP=Cerebral Palsy

EPI=Epilepsy

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