The share of American children who have ever been diagnosed with a developmental disability increased again in 2021, according to a new report from the CDC.
White children also no longer have the highest rate of autism diagnoses, among all race and ethnicity groups — a changefor 2016. Rates were highest in Black children for 2021, with no significant difference between any group of race or ethnicity.
"There's been an almost sea change in that in the last decade," said Durkin, who is also a primary investigator for the CDC's Autism Disabilities Monitoring Network in Wisconsin.autism prevalence has been lower in White children, across their network of health and school records in several communities, compared to Black, Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander children.
"For every time before there was this persistent disparity, with higher prevalence in White children, and in high socioeconomic status communities, which is unlike any other disability," said Durkin. Durkin said families in poorer and disadvantaged communities face a range of risk factors for developmental disabilities, like preterm birth and lead poisoning.
"It makes sense that there is higher prevalence, and points to things we could do to prevent it. But for a while, I think we were under-identifying autism," said Durkin.
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